In order to move forward, Bella Pollen will need to take a good look at her past...
Bella Pollen is a writer and journalist who has contributed to a wide variety of publications, including the Sunday Telegraph, American Vogue and the Observer. She is the author of five novels, All About Men, Daydream Girl, Hunting Unicorns, Midnight Cactus and The Summer of the Bear. She lives in Ladbroke Grove, London.
Bella Pollen creates magic
*Vanity Fair*
A writer you need to read
*A. A. Gill*
Pollen captivatingly mixes graphics with prose to tell of her
upbringing, swinging back and forth between binaries (transatlantic
homes, riches-to-rags love affairs). Think Eat, Pray, Love-finding
yourself, laughing, and taking what you need even when it's not
what you wanted-only cooler
*Marie Claire*
Frequently disturbing, often very funny. Pollen has a gift for
playing with her readers, teasing them, shocking them, having fun
with their assumptions before shaking them out of their complacency
to reveal underlying and often very moving profundities. The
intimacy of Pollen’s prose invites inclusion into the most private
conversations she has with herself, her self-mocking humour
rippling through . . . unforgettable.
*Daily Telegraph*
How to know who you truly are and what you can become? With nothing
firmly underfoot, Pollen pursues a quest for authenticity through
unconventional and unpredictable encounters and thrives. Hers is a
memoir of an indelible life full of incredible adventures.
*Booklist*
Funny, risky, racy, stunningly visual, and beyond poignant, Bella
Pollen’s offbeat memoir is a one-of-a-kind adventure start to
finish.
*Jenny McPhee, author of ‘The Centre of Things' and 'A Man of No
Moon'*
Pollen is an engagingly contradictory tangle . . . but it’s her
propulsive push-pull relationship with home that’s sure to resonate
especially sharply with women . . . Poignant, beautifully written,
an idiosyncratic memoir
*Mail on Sunday*
Captivating
*Tatler*
Meet me in the In-between is as off-beat as its author, blending
memoir with beguiling and graphic novelistic interludes . . . A
journey that buzzes and sparks with life and wit
*The Lady*
Brava . . . Pollen’s account of bohemian family life and outrageous
mafia-in-laws is funny, poignant and acute
*The Spectator*
Meet Me in the In-Between displays the disjointedness of a life,
how whims and flings don’t make existence—or a woman—any less
meaningful. It’s in the spaces among all these things that
something magical breathes and resists capture. As Pollen
illustrates in her sharp, nearly wry voice, it is not our memories
that will lead us to an understanding of the self, but the act of
maneuvering among them
*The San Francisco Journal of Arts and Letter*
A rollicking memoir of the novelist’s double life and her
demons
*Women’s Wear Daily USA*
A whimsical and at times very funny style. Pollen has a real talent
for recreating scenes, characters and dialogue
*Nudge*
Funny, startling and unexpectedly poignant
*The New Statesman*
Pollen has a way with caustic description that evinces a love for
the evocative qualities of language . . . From the beginning (she)
revels in a self-absorption that should be off-putting, but her
clever way with words is so self –deprecating that she is
immediately likeable
*Santa Fe New Mexican*
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