Your heart is beating and your eyes are seeing and your ears are hearing. You’re sitting in this room completely alive. And so you’re not dying. You’re living.” A heart-warming story about how friendship can grow between people of different generations." Rebecca Thomas I was a bit perplexed by the Scottish hospital system where a heart patient is allowed to stay over 4 months between surgeries. Other than that, I found this story endearing. These characters will stay with me for a long while. The book contain stories both by Lenni and Margot about their lives which they tell each other. Both have a positive outlook despite being terminal. Lenni shares her quirky views on people and life.

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo by Marianne Cronin is a heart-warming, funny, and sometimes tear-producing story of a unique friendship. It is a celebration of life and friendship amid the saddest of circumstances. A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars I initially felt unsure about the story when I first finished it. I found myself thinking I wanted more from Lenni’s side of the story. But the more I sat with it the more I realized that’s the whole point. Lenni was seventeen when she died, of course we wanted more from her story, we simply couldn’t have it. We all wish to live lives so full we had endless stories to tell, like Margot who got to experience so much, but that’s not everyone’s reality. I am not going to say anything else about this wonderful book other than it you haven't yet read it, then please do. It is funny, and sad, and tragically beautiful. A book that is going on my 'forever' shelf. A book that contains lessons for us all, ones that most of us never knew we needed.There is more to this story, but essentially, this is a lovely debut that is about living life fully, despite knowing that this life is finite. Filled with the joys of life, of love, it is an ode to living life fully, as joyfully as possible, celebrating life on your own terms. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.

This heartbreakingly beautiful and moving debut novel details an unlikely but powerful intergenerational friendship that develops when it’s needed the most. Lenni, a 17 year old who is hospitalized with a terminal illness, meets Margot an 83 year old who is hospitalized with heart problems. While together in the art room Lenni realizes that between them she and Margot have lived 100 years. They decide to each paint a picture for each year of their lives. Through their paintings and the stories told about them we learn the details of both of these characters lives. Through the course of her hospitalization, Lenni finds Margot as well as several other friends who provide love and support and who help strengthen her resolve to live life fully. Puede que la clave de la felicidad siempre haya estado allí... Una novela de la autora de Yo antes de ti. A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century Colorado Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen year old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors.

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Numbers don’t mean a lot to me. I don’t care about long division or percentages. I don’t know my height or my weight and I can’t remember my dad’s phone number, though I know I used to know it. I prefer words. Delicious, glorious words. Her debut novel 'The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot' took seven years to write. It is to be published in over twenty languages and is being adapted into a feature film by a major Hollywood studio.

I love snark and wit, but I’m not a fan of teenagers whose every utterance out of their mouth is snarky and witty. Especially not to an adult, let alone a priest. No," she said gently, linking her arm through mine, "it's not depressing, it's beautiful. They've been gone for who knows how long, but we can still see them. They live on." When Lenni meets Margot, their connection is immediate, unique, and their new and unlikely friendship is born. During art class Lenni and Margo discover their combined age's equal one-hundred-years. They decide to celebrate their discovery by painting a picture for each year they have lived. The part I didn't understand and that made me maddest was Lenni's dad. How could he. How dare he. What daddy would ever think about leaving. Then there was The Temp. I liked her also. She went through a few things in this book but she ended up ok. There are a few other characters you will meet. Some you will love and some you probably won't like at all. A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.Una novela sobre la amistad, el amor y la libertad. Una historia tierna y profundamente humana que no podrás olvidar. Por la autora de Yo antes de ti. Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. Instead of troubling herself and others with a question she couldn’t answer, she embraced her gift for painting and… celebrated the rest of her life exploring that talent…

Their combined age of 100 inspires a plan to produce 100 pieces of art to celebrate each year, and as they paint, they share stories from their past. Lenni’s are of her early childhood in Sweden, while Margot’s cover a much longer life history. Thank you to #netgally, #mariannecronin, #harpercollinspublishers for this ARC. This is my own true feelings about this book.She looked up from her drawing and stared at me for the briefest of moments, letting me come into focus. Then, with recognition and delight, said, 'It's you!' After meeting in the terminal ward’s art class, two women (one 17 and one 83) bond through life, love and friendshipin this Uplifting and heartstring-tugging story." Parade (Ultimate Summer Reading List) An angry, powerful book seething with love and outrage for a community too often stereotyped or ignored. New Nurse” has been visiting Lenni in the May Ward. She is Lenni’s favourite nurse, a flamboyant woman whom Lenni met when New Nurse escorted her to the chapel. She had Lenni will tell us about her first kiss, her alcoholic mother, the father who ultimately leaves her.