Lostness and in particular the lostness of children
living in real or imagined troubled worlds was
explored in this extraordinarily rich conference.
Ellie Roberts and Geraldine McCaughrean
brought to our attention the lost children in
J.M.Barrie’s Peter Pan and the lost girl who
ensures she is eventually ‘found’ in Geraldine’s
award winning book ‘The White Darkness’. The
Rustins explored themes of loss, emptiness and
mourning in Steven Moffat’s Dr Who scripts and
the plenary brought all of the speakers together
with Geraldine and Steven for an illuminating and
unique discussion on artistic creativity.

Speakers
Irene Freedon
Training analyst

Ellie Roberts
Principal child and adolescent psychotherapist.

Margaret and Michael Rustin
Consultant child and adolescent
psychotherapist and Professor of sociology.

Geraldine McCaughrean
Author and three times winner of the whitbread
children’s book award. Children’s books include
‘Peter Pan in Scarlet’, ‘The Stones are Hatching’
and ‘A Little Lower than the Angels’.

Steven Moffatt
Drama/comedy writer (Dr Who, BBC1’s Jekyll),
now lead writer and executive producer of Dr Who