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Author Wood, Monica, author

Title The one-in-a-million boy / Monica Wood
Published London : Headline Review, 2016
©2016

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Description 406 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Brolis (brother) -- Sunnus (sons) -- Kelione (journey) -- Draugas (friend) -- Vakaras (evening)
Summary MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 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 UNLIKELY 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 .
Notes Oorspronkelijke uitgave: New York : Houghton Miffin Harcourt, 2016
Subject Bass guitarists -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Lithuania -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Ficton
Sons -- Death -- Fiction.
World records -- Fiction.
Forgiveness -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.
Secrets -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
LC no. 2015004345
ISBN 9781472228369
Other Titles One in a million boy