The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: The new and unforgettable Richard & Judy Book Club pick

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Margot moves to London despite not having any plan for when she gets there – if you could move to any city, where would you go? The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is not a book about illness – it is a joyous, heartfelt and sometimes funny story about life. I loved this comment by Margot “Into a room full of octogenarians she strode, with a confidence beyond her years.

She is Lenni’s favourite nurse, a flamboyant woman whom Lenni met when New Nurse escorted her to the chapel. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot" by Marianne Cronin is a story about the power of friendship!I am not going to say anything else about this wonderful book other than it you haven't yet read it, then please do. This one was a quiet build and by the end I was ugly crying, yes, for what you might think, but also for this beautiful friendship. Inspired by this fact, the two embark on a project to make one piece of artwork for each of their 100 years and are only hoping they can get it done before one of them passes away.

They each tell things that happened throughout their lives then drew or painted a picture of that time. i thought the ending was really touching and i enjoyed some of the book's messages, but overall it turned out to be a bit disappointing and won't be one that sticks with me. But there were two numbers in front of me that mattered, and would matter for the rest of my numbered days.I recommend this reading, not because I like it, but because I know that in it you will find a once-in-a-lifetime event. EXCERPT: I peeped through the small window in the Rose Room door, and saw Pippa holding a piece of paper up to an elderly audience of three. The “assignment” for the project is to paint a memory, through which we learn the brief tale of Lenni’s life, along with the complicated, and fascinating, past of our elderly heroine Margot. Despite the heartbreak and sadness however, the story manages to be at times funny and uplifting as it illustrates the good in people and how they make life worth living.