This is a tale of tenderness and devotion, a portrait of the importance of community, and a story of surprising, unexpected, light.- "Alison Wearing, author of Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter and Honeymoon in Purdah" A gift to anyone who has sought to understand the mysterious nature of OCD and its isolating, bewildering consequences. You stay in.- "Brian Doyle, author of Angel Square and Up to Low" Gough's straight ahead style is seductive. to overcome adversity, a book that belongs among the classics of parenting.- "Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and The Moral Arc"
Stolen Child is beautifully written and emotionally evocative, but it is not just about OCD. Laurie gives memoir and travel writing workshops internationally and works as a freelance editor in Wakefield, Quebec.What do you do when your child is stricken down with a disorder whose cure is not at all certain? If you are a rational skeptic like Laurie Gough you research everything ever written on the disorder and apply the methods of science and reason to solve the problem, without resorting to superstition or the supernatural. Times, USA Today,, The National Post, Canadian Geographic, Huffington Post, The Daily Express, Caribbean Travel + Life, among others.
She has been a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, and has written for The Guardian, Macleans magazine, The Walrus, The L.A.
Over twenty of her stories have been anthologized in literary travel books and her work has been translated into several languages. Laurie Gough is the author of Stolen Child: A Mother’s Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Kiss the Sunset Pig: An American Road Trip with Exotic Detours, and Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman’s Travel Odyssey, shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in the U.K., and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Travel Book of the Year in the U.S.
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