The One-in-a-Million Boy: The touching novel of a 104-year-old woman's friendship with a boy you'll never forget...

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DESCRIPTION : A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKEL Y PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, ELIZABETH IS MISSING or THE SHOCK OF THE FALL.Miss Ona Vitkus has - aside from three months in the summer of 1914 - lived unobtrusively, her secrets fiercely protected. The boy, with his passion for world records, changes all that. He is eleven. She is one hundred and four years, one hundred and thirty three days old (they are counting). And he makes her feel like she might be really special after all. Better late than never...Only it's been two weeks now since he last visited, and she's starting to think he's not so different from all the rest.Then the boy's father comes, for some reason determined to finish his son's good deed. And Ona must show this new stranger that not only are there odd jobs to be done, but a life's ambition to complete . . . PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781472228369 BY (AUTHOR) Wood, Monica PUBLISHER : Headline Publishing Group PUBLICATION DATE : April 05, 2016 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Headline Review LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 234 mm x 156 mm WEIGHT : 534 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more