Friendships

About the Book

P-M has always had a love for reading, something shes had all my life.  She found that opening a book took her into a world where she could escape from reality for awhile.

While her work career took her into the finance sector, her love for words always remained.  It seems she always had a flare for the written and spoken word.  P-M always felt she had a book in her, and now was the time to put it on paper.

Friendships, P-M’s book, takes you, the reader, into an eye opening adventure with warm relatable characters, people whom you could live next door to, who could be your family members. P-M’s writing has a natural ability to draw you in and make you feel one with her novel.  Whether you feel love, sadness, empathy or laughter, you will fall in love with her writing, and always want more.  At least that’s what P-M’s lovely friends and family have told her.  You’ll need to judge for yourself.

Friendships narrates the lives of four 32-year-old women who are all strong in their own right. Suddenly and without notice, they are all diagnosed with unseen, life-threatening illnesses. Toni is a poster girl for partying who lives life to the max. Pam is happily married to Jon, the love of her life. Lara is a focused and driven woman who dreams to be a fully qualified lawyer. Beth is a real estate agent who lives a contented life with her partner Tina. Readers follow these four strangers as they meet at the doctor’s office and eventually become firm friends who support each other through their journeys.

Prologue:

Beth and Tina have it all, Beth is a Real Estate Agent, and Tina works in Finance.  Together they help people to realise their dreams of home ownership.  At home they support and love each other, with their fur babies.  Life is good for them living in Scarborough they are close to the beach and enjoy all that life in Perth has to offer, unbeknown they will face a life threatening illness, will it bring them together, or will this end their relationship?

Pam loves her life, married to the love of her life Jon, they work as a team raising their two children Tim and Dawn, with the support of Pam’s parents.  Pam is grateful each and everyday for her life, her children, her marriage and the fact that she can be a stay at home Mum.  Life will challenge them when Pam is diagnosed with a deadly illness, will she survive?

Toni lives life to the max, burning her candle at both ends makes her adrenaline run.  She is the perfect person to manage the Perth City Art Gallery, she loves all things art related.  She keeps the gallery running smoothly so owner Josh can focus on starting another gallery.  With her best friend Nancy’s support Toni will face head on her tuffest challenge, her health, will she win?

Lara, focused and driven to succeed, all she has always wanted to be is a fully qualified lawyer, she has her bar exams to sit soon, just as they are around the corner, disaster strikes, she has an accident that will change her life for ever.  How will she cope, and will she still become a lawyer?

Together they will face some of life’s hardest challenges, together they will support each other, but how, when they don’t know each other?

About the Author

The authors full name is Paige-Maree Hanlon, but as that’s a bit long, people call her P-M, and it stuck. She has a love for reading, which she has had all her life.

While her career took her into the finance sector, her love for words remained. She has always had a flare for the written word. This book takes the reader into an eye opening adventure with warm relatable characters, people whom you could live next door to, who could be your family members. She has a natural ability to draw you in and make you feel one with her novel. Whether you feel love, sadness, empathy or laughter, you will fall in love with her writing, and always want more.

Although originally from New Zealand, P-M currently lives in Rockingham, Perth, Western Australia, with her husband Pete and two fur babies, Pepe and Hobo, she loves the weather finding the mild winters perfect.