The Woman Who Lived To Be 150

By Mary McPhee

Katie Bonner is not aging like her contemporaries. What is her secret? Her new young doctor, Christian Bardo, devotes his career to trying to find out, revealing in his books that he and Katie are the loves of each other's lives despite the fifty years age difference between them. But living so long has not all been a walk in the park for Katie. There's the problem with her children: it's tough to see them age and pass on, mouths agape at their mother's longevity. And her friends: if Katie has to attend one more funeral, she may tear her hair out. But that would be a hard to do because it's not dandelion fluff like most old ladies' hair, but thick, vigorous, and naturally blonde. The paparazzi that follow her around! Her picture appears regularly on the covers of Vogue, Elle, and Vanity Fair. She keeps the tabloid press going. The New Yorker magazine featured a lengthy profile. She can't do a darned thing, cough, sneeze, stay out all night dancing, snowboard at Vail, bungee jump in Mexico, that the whole world doesn't want to know about it. An obscure monk in a monastery in the rugged fastness of Colorado's Elk range has been tracking her life's trajectory in the heavens and the ocular phenomena that accompanies it. What is he really seeing? On the eve of her 150th birthday, Katie is at last dying. Dr. Bardo, aged now, and her granddaughter, Emma, a sprightly seventy-eight-year-old, are at her bedside. They have plans to insure that Katie's DNA will not fall into the hands of a greedy pharmaceutical company or a sinister government agency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980941505
• ISBN13: 9781980941507
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"