THE LAST DAYS OF RABBIT HAYES by Anna McPartlin What a wonderful, heart rending, joyful, incredibly sad and superb story! Who needs to go see the movie to be emotionally strung out, when the writing will bring out the tissues, and more than once.
A family in crisis, gathering in 40 year old Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes' home town in Ireland to say good bye to their daughter, sister, mother, aunt and firiend. Rabbit has only days left having done her utmost over the previous few years to fight the cancer that has taken over her body. But not yet her heart or her soul. Told simultaneously through the eyes of Rabbit, her mother, father, 12 year old daughter, best friend, sister and brother the story of Rabbit's life unfolds over the remaining nine days of her life. If there is such a thing as a good death, then Rabbit is certainly on the way to it. The love, the unbreakable bonds of family, literally ooze out of the pages, as does the richness and complexity of all these people. At the very core of Rabbit's story is the charismatic Johnny Faye, the one true love of her life.
The back cover blurb says it all really . "Here is a truth that won't be forgotten: this is a story about laughing through life's surprises and finding joy in every moment". Wonderful stuff. PS don't forget to have the tissue handy.
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