As well as fiction and non-fiction books, she formerly wrote a column in The Guardian entitled "Living with Teenagers", based on her family experiences.

[1] She has written a column for The Independent about her domestic trials, including her partner, the screenwriter and director Jonathan Myerson, and their children Jacob (known as Jake), Chloe and Raphael.

[4] In Me and the Fat Man (1999), a waitress takes to earning extra giving oral sex in a park, though not out of necessity.

[6] 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 also of motherhood itself".

The Guardian's Mark Lawson, a friend of Julie Myerson, called the book noble, saying, its "elegance and thoughtfulness... and its warning of a fate that may overtake many parents – should not be lost in the extra-literary frenzy.

"[12] The Observer's Kate Kellaway called the book rash but courageous, as if Myerson had tried to "write honestly about a nightmarish situation and a subject that never seems to get the attention it deserves.