[2] She spent her earliest years in Liverpool on a council estate called The Green on Queens Drive.
[6] Her novel for children The Voices of Silence won a New York Public Library citation and was shortlisted for a Gold Medal in the State of California.
[11] On 8 September 2007, Mooney married Robin Allison-Smith, formerly a freelance photographer, now a businessman, with whom she lives on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset.
[12][9] Mooney is a co-founder and patron of Sands,[13] which describes itself as "the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK.
"[15] When "Hazelanne then wrote to national newspapers asking bereaved parents to contact her and share their stories" the torrent of response led to the charity being founded, initially as the Stillbirth Association.