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A serious, writerly, self-critical account of what it means to feel that, despite love and hope and good intentions, you have failed as a parent, and that the child you bore is lost to you. --Daily Telegraph
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'Honest, affecting and noble' Mark Lawson, Guardian 'Julie spells out her pain in prose that's so pure, so literal and so terribly engrossing it makes you weep. And she doesn't flinch from revealing everything - including her own insecurities and inadequacies as a mother ... by the end of this excruciatingly sad book, it is very clear that she didn't do this for art, but for love' Daily Mirror 'Devastating in its candour' Daily Telegraph 'It is impossible not to empathise' The Times
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a terrible invasion on the privacy of the author's son who, shock horror, smoked cannabis. I think Julie Myerson needs to read a book on parenting rather than shamefully write a book weaving together a one-sided story of her sons life into an otherwise bland novel.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
the author seeks to profit and further her career by telling her side of the story. she threw her son out of her home when he was just 17 because he smoked cannabis. to act like this is shocking. to try to profit from it is a disgrace. instead of reading this book i recommend reading an interview with her son. he is far more articulate and clued up than ms myerson. you have my sympathies jake. i'm sure you'll grow up to be a good, rounded person and shame your mother.
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Not sure if I like this book or not, it flits about all over the place.
However, it does bring to the fore the problems you can have with your children and makes you think about them, even if you do want to push them to the back of your mind.
However, it does bring to the fore the problems you can have with your children and makes you think about them, even if you do want to push them to the back of your mind.
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Grieving parents
This is a non-fiction book with three separate strands : an account of Julie Myerson's non-relationship with her father, a history of the Yelloly family, particularly of Mary, a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Clive A. H. Still
Dont condem if you have no experience of this drug....
I read this novel because at the time we are going through a similar crisis with our boy, also coincidentally, named Jake. Read more
Published 15 months ago by whitewitch
Selective Perspective
I read the book knowing very little about Julie and her son's problems, just that there had been a bit of a media splash last year. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Ginny W
The Lost Child by Julie Myerson
In the first opening pages i could have cried! I could have written the words.....this was real, this is true, it is what really happens in the home behind the closed doors when... Read more
Published on 20 May 2010 by bex
Fascinating and emotional.
At the time Julie Myerson was writing and researching this book on Mary Yelloly, a talented young girl that lived a couple of centuries ago, her own life was in turmoil. Read more
Published on 2 April 2010 by C. Colley
Caused quite a stir...
Julie Myerson's new book has created quite a stir, both in England when it was published in Spring, 2009 and here in the US in August, 2009. Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2010 by Jill Meyer
inore the snitty literary reviews.
This is a book for the parents of lost children.Those who focus on stylistic mismatch,or jibe about the not always seamless narrative;completely miss the point. Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2009 by emvanek
Ignore the media hype
Ignore the media hype if you can. This is a great book and touches chords for all those who have had dilemmas with teenage children. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2009 by M. Rudge
Skip the Mary bits, and it's powerful.
I'll leave aside the whole 'should she have written it' question; suffice to say I wouldn't like to live in a world where writers were forbidden from writing about anything,... Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2009 by R. M. Elvidge
oh my word!
I am currently a third of the way through this book and i am utterly saddened by how things are for this family and possibly many other families in this situation. Read more
Published on 28 July 2009 by L. Mellow
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