#BlogTour: The Gift Of Friends by Emma Hannigan @headlinepg @annecater #TheGiftOfFriends #EmmaHannigan #RandomThingsTours #5Stars #legend

Book Synopsis:

Kingfisher Road – a leafy, peaceful street in the town of Vayhill. But there are whispers behind closed doors. Who is moving into Number 10?

Engaged to handsome, wealthy Justin Johnston, Danielle appears to her new neighbours to have the perfect, glossy life. But not everything is as it seems…

In fact, each of the other four women who live close by has a secret, and each is nursing their own private heartache.

But could a gift be waiting on their doorsteps? And, by opening their front doors, and their hearts, to each other, could the women of Kingfisher Road discover all the help they need?

The Gift Of Friends is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase a copy of both using the link below.

My Review:

I am a huge fan of this author so I was completely honoured and thrilled to be invited onto the blog tour for, sadly, this her last book. It’s a book I made sure I read in peace and quiet, savouring ever word .

The book is set in and around Kingfisher Close which is a wonderful sounding community that I’d love to be a part of. I so enjoyed reading about the lives the woman had, seeing how close they were and how they supported each other. The reader is given a fly on the wall glimpse into all the drama and action so I felt that I was actually there experiencing it first hand or as one of the dreaded curtain twitches the woman loathe!

The characters are all well written and developed with each one bringing something different to the group. Throughout the book we learn more about each if them and their histories which made me warm to them. I found I liked all of the characters equally but I maybe leaned more towards Maia as I sympathised with her having teenagers as the attitude I get from my six year old is more than enough! Seeing all the characters function so well as a group was really heartwarming and led to my favourite interactions in the book.

The author’s easy style just draws the reader into the book and there is plenty happening to keep the reader thoroughly entertained. I grew very fond of the characters and wanted to simultaneously keep reading to find out what happens and slow down as I didn’t want it to end.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Headline for my copy of this book. If you haven’t read any of Emma’s books yet this is a great one to start with!

About The Author:

Emma Hannigan was the beloved and bestselling author of many novels and a memoir. Letters to my Daughters, her twelfth novel, spent five weeks at Number One in the Original Fiction bestseller chart in Ireland on publication in 2018. The Perfect Gift and The Wedding Promise were also Number One bestsellers in Ireland. The Secrets We Share won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Epic Romantic Novel award. Emma won Woman of the Year in the literature category of the Irish Tatler Women of the Year awards and was shortlisted twice for an Irish Book award. Emma published her bestselling memoir Talk to the Headscarf in 2011, which was updated and extended in 2017 as All to Live For: Fighting Cancer. Finding Hope and was a top ten bestseller in Ireland.

In 2005, Emma discovered that she had the BRCA1 gene mutation which carries an 85 per cent risk of developing breast cancer and a 50 per cent risk of developing ovarian cancer. In 2007 she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time and her eleven-year battle with cancer began. As an ambassador for Breast Cancer Ireland Emma worked hard to dispel the fears around cancer and spread hope about new treatments. In February 2018 Emma shared with her readers that her dedicated team of doctors had exhausted all avenues in terms of her treatment. In Emma’s final days, she launched a social media campaign #HelpEmmaHelpOthers to raise €100,000 for Breast Cancer Ireland. Two weeks later, shortly before her death, Emma’s target had been reached. In the final months of her life, despite the limitations of her illness, Emma completed her thirteenth novel, The Gift of Friends, sending her acknowledgements to her editor just days before she passed away.