The feedback Emma Hannigan’s editor was never able to give

Ciara Doorley was Emma Hannigan’s editor for nine years. The author passed away before the publishing house was able to give feedback on her final novel, ‘The Gift of Friends’. Here, Ciara writes the letter she was never able to send.

Emma rang the office late 2017 to say that she was putting the finishing touches to her 2019 novel The Gift of Friends- giving it a final read before she sent it in. I knew that she had been in a lot of pain for the past few months and I couldn’t believe that, with everything going on, she had completed her new book.