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Tea Time Book Discussion
October 14 @ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Join us, one Saturday of every month for a cup of tea and a book discussion. This month’s books is “The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot” by Marianne Cronin. If you need a copy of the book, contact us directly at the library. Be sure to include which book you are interested in reading.
Life is short – no one knows that better than 17 year-old Lenni Petterssen. On the Terminal ward, the nurses are offering their condolences already, but Lenni still has plenty of living to do.
For a start, she has questions about her fate she needs answers to, and stories yet to uncover.
When she meets 83-year-old Margot, a fellow patient in purple pyjamas offering new friendship and enviable artistic skills, Lenni’s life begins to soar in ways she’d never imagined.
As their bond deepens, a world of stories opens up: of wartime love and loss, of misunderstanding and reconciliation, of courage, kindness and joy.
Stories that have led them to the end of their days.
Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny, and brimming with tenderness, THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT unwraps the extraordinary gift of life ev