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The Lost Child (Paperback)
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The Lost Child (Paperback)
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List price R253
Loot Price R207
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You Save R46 (18%)
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'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 grateful to her for having done so. She may have been
rash, but she has also been courageous. She has tried to write
honestly about a nightmarish situation and a subject that never
seems to get the attention it deserves' Observer 'Yelloly, however
ephemeral, fulfils a function - she is a lost girl, one who cannot
be revived, from a family ravaged by that Victorian scourge,
consumption. And Myerson's real, parallel lament is for a child who
falls victim to our modern version of consumption - the slow
ruination of a much-loved child through drugs gripping' Financial
Times 'A campaigning book If the question is whether a woman has a
right to tell a story that is also, actually, her own - a book
reviewer can only say yes. And add that anyone who reads it will
struggle not to be profoundly moved' Independent
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