Elisa Segrave

Brava Bella

The dress designer’s account of bohemian family life and her outrageous mafia in-laws is funny, poignant and acute

issue 03 June 2017

  • Meet Me in the In-Between

    Bella Pollen

    Mantle, pp. 317

I like Bella Pollen for her open-mindedness, self-deprecation and verve. Given her early success as a fashion designer — top client Princess Diana — her memoir is extraordinarily modest. Now in her mid-fifties, she has also published five novels — one, Hunting Unicorns, a bestseller. Unusually, this had a dead narrator, and Meet Me in the In-Between also begins with an unearthly creature — a ‘demon’ sexual predator, who won’t leave our memoirist alone.

It also deals with writer’s block.

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