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Marianne Cronin

Biography

Marianne Cronin

Marianne Cronin was born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire, England. She studied English at Lancaster University before earning a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. She now spends most of her time writing, with her newly-adopted rescue cat sleeping under her desk. When she's not writing, Marianne can be found performing improv in the West Midlands, where she now lives. Her debut novel, THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT, is to be translated into over 20 languages and is being adapted into a feature film by a major Hollywood studio.

Marianne Cronin

Books by Marianne Cronin

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
by Marianne Cronin - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still has plenty of living to do. Joining the hospital’s arts and crafts class, she meets the magnificent Margot, an 83-year-old rebel who transforms Lenni in ways she never imagined. Though their days are dwindling, both are determined to leave their mark on the world. With the help of Lenni’s doting palliative care nurse and Father Arthur, the hospital’s patient chaplain, Lenni and Margot devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived --- stories of love and loss, of courage and kindness, of unexpected tenderness and pure joy.