Lost Child (P/B)

'Urgent and Vivid 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 (While Still Eerily, Painfully Familiar) is Lost to You. Which is Not the Same Thing As Saying That It is the Complete Truth. Art Can Only Ever Hope to Present a Version of the Truth. and This is What Julie Myerson Has Done' Daily Telegraph 'An Aching, Empty-Nest Memoir a Mother Mourning for Her Uncomplicated Little Children, Now Grown, Whom She Could Care For, Write About Without Comeback, Love - and Control'the Times Myerson's Motivation is Anything but Base. She Could Have Disguised Her Material in a Novel, but She Wanted to Make Sense of Reality, to Understand the Chaos That Has Taken Over Her Family. She Wanted to Help Others, Herself and Her Son Any Family for Whom Cannabis Has Been a Wrecker, Even If They Would Not Dream of Exposing Their Situation in the Same Way Myerson Has, Will Be Gra