The Lost Child: A Mother's Story
Book Review
In the midst of writing a book about Mary Yelloly, a woman who died of consumption in 1838, at the age of 21, Julie Myerson, a novelist living in London and the mother of three children, was encountering her own nightmare. She was being forced to throw her 17-year-old, drug addicted son out of the house.
"I am flattened, deadened. I have nothing in my mind except the deep black hole that is the loss of my child," she writes in "The Lost Child: A Mother's Story."