Secrets, lies and the loss of lullabies' is the telling phrase used by writer Sarah Hart to describe the experience of absent mothers.
Sarah Hart, who herself lived apart from her daughter, uses this as the starting point for her book on the subject, written as a self-help guide to relieve the isolation of the many women separated from their children.
Latest Child Support Agency figures reveal 66,900 women in the UK paying maintenance while living apart from their children. However, once other categories - unemployment, abduction, fostering, mental illness and so on - are taken into account, that number is estimated to be upwards of 150,000.
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