- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About This Book
For over forty years, Bel Mooney has been one of this country's best-loved journalists and authors, and her hugely popular Daily Mail advice column reaches six million people every week. Far from being a detached and abstract figure, Bel doesn't shy away from sharing her own life experiences of grief, forgiveness and joy with her devoted readers, making her column at once both distinctly personal and thoroughly universal in relevance. A lifeline for many, some of her wise, compassionate and unflinchingly honest words of good counsel are gathered together here for the first time. This selection includes problems, responses and some of the wide-ranging mini essays that appear in the Mail as 'And Finally'. Punctuated by some of Bel's favourite uplifting quotations, this collection also includes 'what happened next' with some of those who received Bel's wisdom - be it about love, loss, break-ups or breakdowns. A heartfelt and inspirational collection, full of valuable insights and prefixed by a wide-ranging and candid introduction reflecting on what being an advice columnist has taught her, Bel Mooney's Lifelines is a book readers will return to again and again, each time discovering something new in the process.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Happy mind?
- 2: Guilt
- 3: Advice from the past
- 4: Renunciation
- 5: A problem with vision
- 6: The loss of a daughter
- 7: Second-best love?
- 8: A need for romance
- 9: A time for rebirth
- 10: What is home?
- 11: How can I like myself?
- 12: Daffodils
- 13: Riding towards healing
- 14: Whatās wrong with women?
- 15: Gardening
- 16: The glue of the universe
- 17: The pith of it
- 18: How do you change?
- 19: Bad karma
- 20: Forgive the penitent (1)
- 21: Hands-on dad
- 22: A good man
- 23: Still mourning
- 24: Providence
- 25: A little help from my friends
- 26: Forgive the penitent (2)
- 27: The same soul
- 28: Suffer the little children
- 29: A memory of happiness
- 30: A flame of remembrance
- 31: The star above the path
- 32: A matter of principle
- 33: Love and valour
- 34: The chink in the wall
- 35: My fatherās funeral
- 36: A sample of sympathy
- 37: Secret guilt
- 38: Mersey mania
- 39: Lonely self-pity
- 40: Grief for a wife
- 41: An eleven-year-old calls āhelpā
- 42: A soulmate?
- 43: A sisterās suicide
- 44: Remember the good
- 45: A lesson from a baby
- 46: Judgement
- 47: Believe in Santa
- 48: A riposte to cynics
- 49: Angels and snowdrops
- 50: Pantomime horse
- 51: After the affair
- 52: Purpose after loss
- 53: Brave daughter
- 54: āWorldās worst bastardā?
- 55: Toy Story
- 56: Heās leaving home
- 57: Love in a life
- 58: My brother
- 59: A sorry saga
- 60: Fox
- 61: Where is the happy family?
- 62: The ancestor effect
- 63: My old love
- 64: Advice to self
- 65: Long affair
- 66: Abject
- 67: An old letter
- 68: What about me?
- 69: Mixing the music
- 70: Spring
- 71: You got a friend
- 72: A death at Beachy Head
- 73: The spiritual impulse
- 74: Pay attention
- 75: After heās gone
- 76: The gift of poetry
- 77: Daisy
- 78: The death of one cat
- 79: The spirit cannot die
- 80: Forgiveness
- 81: Religion or freedom?
- 82: Does a door open?
- 83: Round and round
- 84: Larkin about
- 85: Three years laterā¦
- 86: Bury bulbs
- 87: Mr Mole
- 88: A message of hope
- 89: The wolf of worry
- 90: Ice age
- 91: Live the life
- 92: Working mum
- 93: Hatred and consolation
- 94: Only good
- Acknowledgements
- Also by Bel Mooney
- Copyright