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Romance. Friendship. Joy. And the possibility of happy endings. What more do you want in a feel-good read? In the latest Katie Fforde (love her) release, Lizzie\u2019s mother is keen for her to have A Wedding in the Country<\/strong>, to a suitable chap chosen, obviously, by mum. And to learn how to be a \u2018good wife\u2019, she\u2019s sent off to cookery school in London. It\u2019s 1963 \u2026 and London is swinging! Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a mini dress and moves in with two great friends. All of her mum\u2019s plans are forgotten. She\u2019s going to have fun \u2026 even if that entails falling in love with someone who appears to be engaged to someone else. The perfect read for a lazy Easter weekend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dodging doctor\u2019s orders, 17-year-old Lenni, who\u2019s living in the terminal ward, joins an art class where she bumps into fellow hospital patient Margot, a rebel-hearted 83-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realise that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories \u2026 of growing old and staying young, of giving joy and receiving kindness, of losing love and finding the person who is everything. Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny and brimming with tenderness, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot<\/strong> by Marianne Cronin unwraps the extraordinary gift of life, even when it is about to be taken away, and revels in our infinite capacity for friendship and love when we need them most. Keep the tissues at your side.<\/p>\n Was there a single book club in the late 1990s which didn\u2019t have The Notebook<\/strong> on the must-read list? Impossible. And now, 25 years after its first release, Nicholas Sparks\u2019 love story to end all love stories is being released. It\u2019s the story of Noah Calhoun, who returns from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty. But he\u2019s haunted by memories of the beautiful Allie, who he\u2019d met years before \u2026 a girl who stole his heart at the funfair, whose parents didn\u2019t approve, a girl he wrote to every day for a year. When she turns up on his doorstep, he has a chance to win her back. Small problem \u2026 she\u2019s engaged to someone else. You\u2019ve seen the movie \u2026 you may have read the book \u2026 but read it (and weep) again anyway. It\u2019s not called a classic heartbreaker for nothing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Details:<\/strong> fatbastardwine.co.za<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romance. Friendship. Joy. And the possibility of happy endings. What more do you want in a feel-good read? In the latest Katie Fforde (love her) release, Lizzie\u2019s mother is keen for her to have A Wedding in the Country, to a suitable chap chosen, obviously, by mum. And to learn how to be a \u2018good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,41,27],"tags":[2117,2118,413,65,2119,2120,363,2121,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-6531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-wine","8":"category-leisure","9":"category-reviews","10":"tag-25th-anniversary-edition","11":"tag-authors-a-wedding-in-the-country","12":"tag-book-club","13":"tag-books","14":"tag-fat-bastard-rose","15":"tag-fat-bastard-rose-2020","16":"tag-reading","17":"tag-the-notebook","18":"tag-wine"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/lowveld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2021\/03\/The-One-Hundred-Years-of-Lenni-and-Margot-400x300.jpg\")
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