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First Edition: Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1952, Monica emigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1956 and grew up mainly in New York before moving to London in 1970. Although she initially trained to be an actress, she became a professional journalist in 1974, starting as staff writer on the weekly Local Government Chronicle. She turned freelance after the birth of her first son in 1978.

Monica has written for many leading British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, for which she has been writing the popular weekly column, Missing and Found, since 1999. Other papers to which she has contributed features include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Express, The Evening Standard, Jewish Chronicle and Press Gazette.

Her work has also appeared in magazines – e.g. Eve, Real, Woman’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Saga Magazine and Reader’s Digest.

Monica’ experience in radio broadcasting began in the Seventies when she wrote and produced weekly programmes for Radio Free Europe’s Hungarian section. During the Nineties she scripted ten 12-minute Personal View talks on a variety of themes for the BBC World Service, as well as several three-minute talks for the commercial station London News Radio.

She is the author of seven books – The Paper Bridge: A Return to Budapest (1981 and reprinted 2009), Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War (1990 and reprinted 2006), and Dreams and Doorways: Turning Points in the Early Lives of Famous People (1993), Long Lost: The Story of the Newspaper Column That Started the Reunion Industry (2010), Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously (2014 and 2020), Children Against Hitler: The Young Resistance Heroes of the Second World War (2020), and Benny and Bobby Versus Adolf: How Two Lab Mice Took on an Evil Empire (2022).

She has two children and four grandchildren and lives in London.