Tony Cointreau’s A Gift of Love gets 10th anniversary edition

Tony Cointreau’s A Gift of Love: Lessons Learned From My Work and Friendship with Mother Teresa is marking its 10th anniversary with a new edition from Back2Ink Press. The book’s release and a recent international award spotlight its message about caregiving, dignity and compassion for families facing end-of-life care.

Why it matters: - The 10th anniversary edition puts Cointreau’s caregiving lessons back in front of readers at a time when many families are caring for aging or seriously ill loved ones. - The book centers on the human side of end-of-life care, not just medical treatment. - Its international recognition broadens the book’s reach beyond its original 2016 publication.

What happened: - Tony Cointreau’s A Gift of Love: Lessons Learned From My Work and Friendship with Mother Teresa is being released in a 10th anniversary edition. - Back2Ink Press made the edition available. - Cointreau was named Best International Arthouse Writer for the 10th anniversary edition at the 2026 International Film Music and Literature Festival in Bologna, Italy. - The book was first published on Sept. 6, 2016.

The details: - The book draws on Cointreau’s 12 years as a volunteer with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity. - Cointreau cared for men dying of AIDS at the Gift of Love hospice in New York City. - He later volunteered in Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta. - Cointreau said he wrote the book after people kept asking him to share what they could do for loved ones in their last weeks, days or hours. - The book focuses on listening without judgment, dignity, comfort, and facing death without fear. - Cointreau says the goal is to help at least one person who is panicking while trying to care for someone at the end of life. - The book argues that caregiving includes presence, patience, dignity and love, not just medical action.

Between the lines: - Cointreau’s background is unusual for a caregiving memoir: he grew up in the family behind the French Cointreau liqueur brand and later had an international career as a singer and performer. - A photograph of a volunteer carrying a dying man at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying pushed him toward this work. - The anniversary edition reflects continued demand for practical, emotionally grounded guidance on dying and caregiving.

What's next: - The anniversary edition is now available to readers who want a firsthand account of caregiving at the end of life. - The book’s new award and reissue may expand its audience in the U.S. and abroad. - More information is available here.