Review: The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

Posted April 4, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Review: The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica WoodThe One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
Published by Headline Review on April 5, 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Fiction
Pages: 416
Format: E-Arc, Hardback
Source: Netgalley, Publisher
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The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidden for decades.
One Saturday, the boy doesn't show up. Ona starts to think he's not so special after all, but then his father arrives on her doorstep, determined to finish his son's good deed. The boy's mother is not so far behind. Ona is set to discover that the world can surprise us at any age, and that sometimes sharing a loss is the only way to find ourselves again.

The One-in-a-Million Boy  is an adorable book! Simple. 

The One-in-a-Million Boy is a truly heart-warming story and I loved the developing relationships between all the characters and how the chapters effortlessly alternating between Ona’s life-story, the weeks the boy was in Ona’s life and how Quinn changes in the weeks after. Ona is the anchor to the story and she is the one that we root for as she attempts to break a world record.

From the beginning I was hooked. Despite being adults it is the boy that gives them friendship, that give them hope. It is the boy that links them all together and creates this odd-ball family.

I loved the profound affect an eleven year old boy had on a hundred and four year old. There is a touch of magic in the air. An amusing, uplifting book that you never want to let go of.

This is a one-in-a-million book.

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