American author Monica Wood, who's been compared to Anne Tyler and Sue Monk Kidd, is set to release her debut UK novel The One-in-a-Million Boy on April 5 2016 with Headline.

A jewel of a novel, The One-in-a-Million Boy is about 104 year old Ona and the unlikely friendships that begin when a boy scout who's obsessed with world records comes to help out at her house. Themes of grief, love, family and old age come together to form a novel that sits on that magical boundary between literary and commercial fiction, a book that's both easy to read and deeply profound as it swings between light humour and wrenching sadness as the boy's father, guitarist Quinn, comes to finish his son's good deed. Wood is based in Portland, Maine, and is best known for the award-winning memoir When We Were The Kennedys, along with several other acclaimed novels which are sure to be explored by eager readers after The One-in-a-Million Boy's release. This engaging and heartfelt novel is set to be one of the biggest hits of 2016.