Like many British children, Zoe Andrews and her sister Hannah loved “The Secret Garden,” the 1911 classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The book, Love, Freddie, discloses how the child was accidentally conceived during an affair with a close friend's wife in 1976. Now 48, his daughter lives in Europe and works in the medical field.

Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them ...

Prior to his death in 1991, Mercury gave his daughter 17 journals, which have also remained secret through the decades — and were passed to the author ahead of the book’s publication.

The book, Love, Freddie, details how the child was conceived accidentally during a fling with the wife of Freddie's close friend in 1976. His daughter, who is now 48 lives in Europe where she ...