The Author Vilified For Kicking Out Her Drug-User Son - And Writing About It - Says Tough Love Cuts Both Ways

Julie Myerson looks like a broken sparrow. "This has been a terrible week, today has been a terrible day and yesterday was one of the worst days," she says tremulously, raking a hand through her pale gold hair. Her fingers shake; she is on the verge of tears.

She has reason. Last week she set off a storm when she revealed that her new book, The Lost Child, features a detailed account of her son's five-year struggle with cannabis and her own traumatic decision, when he was 17, to turn him out of the family home and change the locks.

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