12 Facts About Julie Myerson

Julie Myerson appeared regularly as a panellist on the arts programme Newsnight Review.

Julie Myerson has written a column for The Independent about her domestic trials, including her partner, the screenwriter and director Jonathan Myerson, and their children Jacob, Chloe and Raphael.

Julie Myerson was a regular reviewer on the UK arts programme, Newsnight Review, on BBC Two.

Julie Myerson's novels are usually dark in mood, tending towards the supernatural.

Julie Myerson's first was Sleepwalking, which was to some degree autobiographical.

Julie Myerson feels she is haunted by her father's mother, reliving the neglect that had made him abusive.

Julie Myerson gets involved with two other men, friends who have an awkward relationship and a secret between them that turns out to be related to her own birth.

Julie Myerson tries to bring out the freshness and modernity of the period as it would have appeared at the time.

Something Might Happen is about a murder in a Suffolk seaside town based on Southwold, where Julie Myerson has a second home.

Julie Myerson was the anonymous author of "Living with Teenagers", a Guardian column and later book that detailed the lives of a family with three teenage children.

The column ended after one of the children was identified and ridiculed at school, although Julie Myerson had denied being the author three times to her own children, only coming clean when it became clear there was no other option.

Julie Myerson was at the centre of a media controversy in March 2009, when details of her book The Lost Child: a True Story emerged; commentators criticised her for what Minette Marrin in The Sunday Times called "betrayal not just of love and intimacy, but of motherhood itself".