How the Penguins Saved Veronica

A rich, heartwarming story about a curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins that proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be, from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. After a disastrous first meeting with the grandson she never knew she had, eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her millions to. Although she has health, wealth, and wit, Veronica has been alone for a long time, her only connections to her past a box of diaries from when she was a teenager during World War II and a locket filled with a strand of hair from every person she has loved and lost. After learning about a research team studying endangered penguins in Antarctica, Veronica tells the scientists she's coming to visit--and won't take no for an answer. Despite a discouraging first experience in which a penguin attacks her favorite scarlet handbag, Veronica warms to the birds. She even convinces the team