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The Lost Child
Julie Myerson
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Description for The Lost Child
Paperback. 'The most controversial book in Britain' Jeremy Paxman Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJK; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408800775
SKU
V9781408800775
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson is the author of seven novels, including the bestselling Something Might Happen, and two works of non-fiction, including Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived In Our House, which was dramatised on BBC Radio 4. Her latest novel Out of Breath was published by Cape in February 2008. She lives in London and Suffolk with her husband ... Read more
Reviews for The Lost Child
'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 ... Read more