children, Kitty (born 1980), a freelance journalist and charity consultant, and Daniel (born 1974), a television producer/director. They also had a son, Tom, who was stillborn in 1975. On 8 September 2007, Mooney married Robin Allison-Smith, formerly a freelance photographer, now a businessman, with whom she lives on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset. Charitable activities Mooney is a co-founder and patron of Sands, which describes itself as "the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK." Mooney and Hazelanne Lewis both gave birth to stillborn babies in the 1970s, and Mooney wrote an article for The Guardian, in which she described how "At that time in the UK, most parents were not allowed to see or hold their babies, no photographs were taken, parents were not told where their babies were buried, and they could not put their baby’s name on the stillbirth certificate." When "Hazelanne then wrote to national newspapers asking bereaved parents to contact her and share their stories" the torrent of response led to the charity being founded, initially as the Stillbirth Association. Bibliography The Anderson Question Bel Mooney's Somerset The Fourth of July Lost Footsteps The Windsurf Boy The Year of the Child Intimate Letters The Stove Haunting I'm Bored!, the 10th in the "Kitty" series for younger children Notes and references External links Daily Mail — Bel Mooney 1946 births Living people 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists Alumni of University College London BBC Radio 4 presenters British writers of young adult literature Daily Mail journalists Daily Mirror people English children's writers English environmentalists New Statesman people People from Trowbridge The Times journalists Writers from Liverpool