Emma Hannigan Books in Order

15 books are credited to Emma Hannigan, published between 2009 and 2019; 1 of them appeared after Emma Hannigan's death in 2018. The first book is Designer Genes (2009) and the newest is Gift Of Friends (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
2009–2019
Pages on record
5,137 in 12 of 15 books
Reading time
86–128 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,137 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

Emma Denise Hannigan (25 September 1972 to 3 March 2018) was an Irish author and blogger who wrote about living with cancer. The catalogue lists 15 Hannigan books, starting with Designer Genes (2009), and includes the Huntersbrook House series. Subject tags cover cancer patients, mothers and daughters, families, single women and pregnant women. Talk to the Head Scarf (2011), The Pink Ladies Club (2011), Keeping Mum (2012), The Heart of Winter (2014) and The Secrets We Share (2015) are among the titles, and Gift Of Friends carries a 2019 date.

How many Emma Hannigan books are there?

Emma Hannigan has 15 books, released between 2009 and 2019. 1 of them were published after Emma Hannigan's death in 2018. 2 of them belong to the Huntersbrook House series.

Emma Hannigan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Emma Hannigan books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Designer Genes2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009
  2. 2
    Miss Conceived2010 · 420 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010420
  3. 3
    Talk to the Head Scarf2011 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011416
  4. 4
    The Pink Ladies Club2011 · 385 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011385
  5. 5
    Driving Home for ChristmasHuntersbrook House #12012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012
  6. 6
    Keeping Mum2012 · 356 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012356
  7. 7
    Perfect Wives2013 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013448
  8. 8
    The Heart of WinterHuntersbrook House #22014 · 454 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014454
  9. 9
    The Summer Guest2014 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014448
  10. 10
    The Secrets We Share2015 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015320
  11. 11
    The Perfect Gift2016 · 482 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016482
  12. 12
    All To Live For2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017
  13. 13
    The Wedding Promise2017 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017480
  14. 14
    Letters to My Daughters2018 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018464
  15. 15
    Gift Of Friends2019 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019464

Emma Hannigan books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Huntersbrook House in order

2 books
  1. 1. Driving Home for Christmas
  2. 2. The Heart of Winter

Standalone books

13 books

13 Emma Hannigan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Emma Hannigan books in order?

You only need to read Emma Hannigan books in order within the Huntersbrook House series, which holds 2 of the 15 Emma Hannigan books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Emma Hannigan

Start with Designer Genes (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Emma Hannigan book?

Gift Of Friends (2019) is the newest Emma Hannigan book released so far.

Is there a new Emma Hannigan book coming?

No next Emma Hannigan book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Emma Hannigan at a glance

Died
Emma Hannigan died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Emma Hannigan are still being published after Emma Hannigan's death in 2018; the newest appeared in 2019.
Release pace
Emma Hannigan books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
5,137 pages across the 12 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 448 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Emma Hannigan books, 14 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the Emma Hannigan books are about

14 of the 15 Emma Hannigan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 3 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.