Irish author with terminal cancer reaches No 1 after campaign

Support from authors including Marian Keyes sees Emma Hannigan’s Letters to My Daughters become a bestseller, after she announces ‘all avenues have been exhausted’ in her treatment

Emma Hannigan’s Letters to My Daughters has shot to the top of book charts in Ireland, after the author announced that her cancer was now terminal, and her fellow writers launched a campaign to make her final novel a No 1 bestseller.

On Wednesday, official book sales monitor Nielsen said that Hannigan’s novel had sold 4,065 copies in the last week, making it Ireland’s bestselling title by some margin, ahead of the second-placed The Year That Changed Everything, by Cathy Kelly, which sold 1,893 copies. Irish writers including Kelly and Patricia Scanlan, who have been part of the campaign to get the novel to the top of the charts, reacted with delight.

Omg that’s fantastic news. I was waiting till tomorrow to harass Maria @DubrayBooks for numbers :) and you ladies with books out and promoting @MsEmmaHannigan are incredible. Xxx

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