Hard News: Just shoot me
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First review of the book itself, rather than just the people involved, at the Guardian.
Although I wonder if it's more personal than it seems. Lawson is a colleague of Myerson's and had already conducted a sympathetic interview on Radio 4.
There's some interesting discussion of the review further down the MumsNet thread.
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Two more reviews, both cautiously positive. In the Telegraph , Jane Shilling notes the book's "dazzling intensity" and says it is "devastating in its candour." Over at the Independent , Katy Guest winds up her review thus:
Whether or not the young man is an addict; whether his parents were right to expel him from their home; even whether it is fair to put a teenager's life into print: these are questions that will be addressed in news and columns and television discussion shows for some time to come. But 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.
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