The mother writing to her daughter who is in a coma - Dear Daughter podcast, BBC World Service

Namulanta meets with Isabel Allende, The "Queen of Letters", who reads what she wrote to her daughter, Paula, when she was in a coma. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM The best-selling author also talks about writing, processing grief and a full garage. She then turned the letters into a book. She says writing “allowed me to understand what had happened and deal with it”. Isabel has a garage full of her daily correspondence with her own mother. Her novels include The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts and Eva Luna. Isabel is reading an extract from her book "Paula." Our podcast, Dear Daughter, features letters from parents to their children. Check out more episodes of our Dear Daughter podcast here:    • Dear Daughter   Please send Namulanta your letter. Go to www.bbcworldservice.com/deardaughter and click on “Send us your letters”. ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #isabelallende #motherdaughter #letter