Bel Mooney's Lifelines

For over forty years, Bel Mooney has been one of this country's best-loved journalists. Her hugely popular Daily Mail column reaches around six million people every week. Readers who value this writer's wisdom on issues of the human heart - from marital breakup, through grief, to family problems - also keenly follow the short 'opinion' column in which, as an adjunct to her problem page, she shares her thoughts on a wide variety of issues affecting the human condition. Called simply 'And Finally' this column makes her unique among agony aunts in that she gives of herself to her readers in return for their confidences. Readers regularly write to say that this is the first thing they turn to in the newspaper.Now, for the first time, these columns have been revised, updated, and collected in a bedside book packed with insight from a writer whose own life experiences have taught her much about the workings of the human heart. Designed for dipping into, these mini essays and accompanying quotations encompass joy, family life, sadness, resilience, the love of nature, gratitude, possibility, hope, encouragement - and many other things too. These are anecdotes and insights to challenge and uplift, to entertain and inform.