The Lost Child - Julie Myerson (2009)Julie Myerson comes across an album, of watercolour pictures painted in the 1800's by a young girl Mary Yellory. She finds later that Mary died at the age of 21, leaving little trace of the life she lived, except for the pictures of her life.
At the same time, while researching the life of the Yellory family, there is turmoil in the Myerson family. The oldest son, at sixteen is thrown out of home. Turning the world of his family inside out and upside down by his continued drug use, after continued disturbances and an assault on his mother, the parents feel they have little choice but to ask him to leave.
Julie Myerson seems to have received a huge amount of criticism for this move, but my goodness I feel that she was so brave to write about this issue that many families are facing and that in her book, she laid out bare and told it like it was. I could feel her pain in her writing, and feel very sad that people could be critical of her.
Although both childrens lives are so very different, it does explain that no matter how much you may love your kids, and no matter what opportunities come their way, they will make their own way in the world.
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