The Lost Child

The Lost Child

by JulieMyerson (Author)

Synopsis

One bleak, late winter's day, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who died nearly two centuries before. As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolours that uniquely reflected the world she lived in. But Mary died at the age of twenty-one, and when Julie comes across this album, she is haunted by the potential never realised, the barely-lived life cut short. And most of all, she is reminded of her own child. Because only days earlier, Julie and her husband locked their eldest son out of the family home. He was just seventeen. How could it have come to this? After a happy growing-up, it had taken only a matter of months for this bright, sweet, good-humoured boy to completely lose his way and propel his family into daily chaos. He had discovered cannabis and was now smoking it everyday - and nothing they could say or do, no help they could offer, seemed to reach him. And Julie - whose emotionally fragile relationship with her own father had left her determined to love her children better - had to accept that she was, for the moment at least, powerless to bring back the boy she had known. Honest, warm and often profoundly upsetting, this is the parallel story of a girl and a boy separated by centuries. The circumstances are very different, but the questions remain terrifyingly the same. What happens when a child disappears from a family? What will survive of any of us in memory or in history? And how is a mother to cope when love - however absolute, however unconditional - is not enough to save her child?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: Airport and Export ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 20 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 1408803879
ISBN 13: 9781408803875
Book Overview: Her last non-fiction book, Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived In Our House, sold over 20,000 copies in hardback and paperback (Nielsen BookScan). She is also a bestselling novelist: Something Might Happen has sold 77,000 copies (Nielsen BookScan) Julie Myerson is an extremely high-profile writer, journalist and reviewer for national broadsheets and television For fans of The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Bad Blood by Lorna Sage and Shoot the Damn Dog by Sally Brampton

Media Reviews
'Myerson has a talent for making the unthinkable readable. The result is riveting' Observer 'She knows precisely what she wants to do and it makes your hair stand on end' Philip Hensher Praise for Home: 'Part memoir, part historical fiction, part detective story: it works on every level' - Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'Fascinating a first-rate novelist' - Mail on Sunday
Author Bio
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 and teenage children.