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Bel Mooney has written six novels, nearly thirty children’s books, a memoir called A Small Dog Saved My Life and millions of words of journalism.

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Daily Mail Book of the Week | Letters to Michael

Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

I keep returning to this magical collection, each time with renewed wonder that the letters survived — but also with a strange sadness that these days there is so little inclination to write any letters at all, let alone ones as happy and touching as these.

From Chicago to the Western Front

Bel Mooney on Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone

Borden begins The Forbidden Zone with a surprisingly bald statement: ‘I have not invented anything in this book.’ She explains that the sketches and poems were written between 1914 and 1918 but the stories are more recent and recount ‘true episodes I cannot forget’. The paradox becomes clear: she is telling the truth and yet the truth was so dreadful that ‘I have blurred the bare horror of facts and softened the reality in spite of myself . . .’

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