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 its been two weeks now since he last visited, and shes starting to think hes not so different from all the rest. Then the boys father comes, for some reason determined to finish his sons good deed. And Ona must show this new stranger that not only are there odd jobs to be done, but a lifes ambition to complete . . .
ALOIS NEBEL 
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