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  • Published: 13 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781473533868
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Dear Minnie

Conversations with Remarkable Mothers





From filmmaker and Sunday Times bestselling author Stacey Dooley comes a frank, insightful and heartwarming exploration of the myriad issues surrounding contemporary motherhood.

\"A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the messy, miraculous truth of motherhood.\" - KATIE PIPER


\"It was the first time I’d ever signed ‘Mummy’, and it was a goodbye letter.\"

\"I feel so honoured to have carried you both for nine months and delivered you safely into the arms of your parents.\"

\"I knew I had to be in that little girl's life. The next time I got out, I never used drugs again.\"

\"As a refugee, I say to my daughter, 'You have been born in a safe place. Never take that for granted.'\"

After having her first child, Stacey Dooley had a new understanding of what motherhood means – but not everyone’s experience of it is the same. In Dear Minnie, Stacey brings her trademark empathy and investigative skill to an entirely new ‘frontline’, exploring the varied perspectives of mothers of all experiences. Using letters that each mother has written to their child as her starting point, Stacey’s frank, honest, and moving inquiry explores experiences from pregnancy to birth and beyond, uncovering the messy truths and different emotional journeys women take, as well as the common bonds they all share.

Dear Minnie shines a light on the quiet selflessness, resilience, pain, trauma, grief, and joy of every kind of mother, to tell a story that transcends culture and geography, and speaks to us all.

  • Published: 13 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781473533868
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley is one of the UK’s most loved documentary presenters. Across her series, Stacey Dooley Investigates, she has examined a variety of topics from sex trafficking and under age sex slavery, to domestic violence.
Stacey immersed herself in different groups with extreme ideologies and beliefs in a two-part series Brainwashing Stacey Dooley for BBC3 last year where she had to embrace the challenging world of pro-abortionists and the controversial arena of big game hunting. And in 2016, Stacey travelled to Syria and presented the critically acclaimed documentary, Stacey Dooley on The Frontline: Gun Girls and ISIS, also for BBC3.
2017 has seen Stacey explore the dangerous world of child pornography in Japan, investigate the missing indigenous girls of Canada and go undercover in the growing criminal world of Britain’s digital drug dealers.

In 2018, Stacey was awarded an MBE for her outstanding contribution to broadcasting.

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Praise for Dear Minnie

In Dear Minnie, Stacey Dooley brings her trademark warmth, empathy, and curiosity to the raw, beautiful, and often challenging journey of motherhood. This is a book that will resonate deeply with every mother, offering a powerful reminder that, despite our differences, we are all united in the transformative experience of bringing life into the world. Stacey’s honesty and sensitivity make this a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the messy, miraculous truth of motherhood.

KATIE PIPER