Can the boy’s father help, and is it really Ona who will help him? But the boy has renewed Ona’s desire to live. But then the boy stops coming and his father turns up in his place, to fulfil the boy’s commitment. But when a boy scout arrives at her house to do his duty and help with chores Ona soon finds herself making a new friend, just when she thought such days were behind her. Ona Viktus is 104 and is getting along perfectly well on her own, thank you very much. I received a copy of this book from the publishers and this is my opinion of the book.
And Ona must show this new stranger that not only are there odd jobs to be done, but a life’s ambition to complete. Then the boy’s father comes, for some reason determined to finish his son’s good deed. 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. And he makes her feel like she might be really special after all. She is one hundred and four years, one hundred and thirty three days old (they are counting). The boy, with his passion for world records, changes all that. Miss Ona Vitkus has – aside from three months in the summer of 1914 – lived unobtrusively, her secrets fiercely protected. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, ELIZABETH IS MISSING or THE SHOCK OF THE FALL. “A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be.
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