Emma Hannigan was een Ierse auteur wiens schrijven diepgaand werd gevormd door haar persoonlijke ervaringen met kanker. Haar werk verkende moedig de realiteit van ziekte, veerkracht en de menselijke geest in het aangezicht van tegenspoed. Door haar openhartige verhalen bood ze een uniek perspectief op het navigeren door levensveranderende gezondheidsuitdagingen, en liet ze een nalatenschap van moed en empathie achter.
Devastated after a tragedy, Nathalie Conway finds herself on a plane to Ireland. She is on her way to stay with her grandmother Clara. The woman who up until now Nathalie had no idea existed ... As Clara awaits her granddaughter's arrival, she is filled with a new sense of hope. She has spent the past twenty years wishing that her son Max would come back into her life. Perhaps now he can find a way to forgive her for the past. And her granddaughter may be the thread to stitch the pieces of her beloved family back together.
When actress Jodi Ludlum returns to the Dublin village of Bakers Valley to raise her young son, she's determined to shield him from the media glare that follows her in LA. But coming home means leaving her husband behind - and waking old ghosts... Francine Hennessy was born and raised in Bakers Valley. To all appearances, she is the model wife, mother, home-maker and career woman. But, behind closed doors, Francine's life is crumbling around her. As Jodi struggles to conceal her secrets and Francine faces some shocking news, the two become unlikely confidants. Suddenly having the perfect life seems less important than finding friendship, and the perfect place to belong...
The Pink Ladies Club is a pretty unusual club. There are no fees and you can be any age to join. Zoe, who runs her own boutique with her mirror-image twin sister, Charlie, is twenty-two. Upbeat Esme, soon to celebrate a milestone birthday and maker of the best roast dinner around, is sixty-nine. Hard-nosed businesswoman Tanya, blessed with a gentle husband and a darling baby, is thirty-five. But despite their differences, these women all have the one membership requirement for the cancer. And as life, loss, sickness and the sometimes bizarrely funny world of cancer-treatment washes over them, they find that being a member of the Pink Ladies Club is the glue that holds it all together. Their families love them, but do they really understand Esme's husband Michael is so set in his ways that even a change of diet rattles him. Zoe s twin Charlie is living her own fun-filled life. And how can Tanya s little girl comprehend what the future may hold Not all three women may last the course, but for them and their counsellor Sian Doyle, who has lost the man she adored to the disease, the experience of facing and fighting this illness is life-changing and even life-enhancing. Emma Hannigan delivers another terrific book, full of her trademark energy and fun.
Emily Cusack's got it all sorted. A loving husband, two adorable kids & a gorgeous home. All she needs now is an au pair for life to be truly perfect. Then Emily learns she could be a carrier of a cancer-causing gene. She doesn't take much lying down & deals with this in her decisive way. But can her marriage survive the aftershock?
"Happy Birthday, darling girl." Ever since she can remember, Roisin has received a birthday card in the post. Signed with love from the birth mother she has never met. Brought up by her adoptive parents, Keeley and Doug, Roisin has wanted for nothing. But on her thirtieth birthday a letter comes that shakes her world. For Keeley, who's raised Roisin as her own, the letter reminds her of a secret she's been holding for thirty years. And for Nell, keeping watch in the lighthouse, the past is a place she rarely goes. Until a young runaway arrives seeking shelter, and unwraps the gift of hope for them all.
You're in for a festive treat with Driving Home for Christmas by Emma Hannigan , the perfect winter warmer for fans of Maeve Binchy, Cathy Kelly and Patricia Scanlan. 'A wonderful storyteller' Cathy KellyChristmas at Huntersbrook House has always been a family tradition - log fires, long walks through the snowy fields and evenings spent in the local pub. And this year the three grown-up Craig children are looking forward to the holidays more than ever. Pippa to escape her partying lifestyle and mounting debts in Dublin; Joey the demands of his gorgeous girlfriend who seems intent on coming between him and his family; and Lainey to forget about her controlling ex and his recent engagement to another woman.But with the family livery yard in financial trouble, this Christmas could be the Craig family's last at Huntersbrook as they face the prospect of selling the ancestral house. As the holiday season gets underway, the family need to come up with a way to save their home, and face the problems they've been running away from in Dublin. And what better place to figure things out than around the fire at Huntersbrook House?
Letters to my Daughters is a spellbinding story about the complicated bonds
between women -- daughters, mothers, sisters -- and how love and happiness
comes in many guises.
