Shape I’m In: Emma Hannigan has staying power

NOTHING will stop bestselling author Emma Hannigan from writing — not even cancer.

Indeed, if it wasn’t for the disease she might never have discovered her gift for story telling.

“I started writing while I was in hospital. That was how I arrived at being an author and finding out what it was I was meant to do,” says Emma, 41, who had previously trained as a chef and a beauty therapist.