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On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Uncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.’A modern masterpiece’ GuardianAutumn 1929 – a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The child remembers nothing of these events and at home, nobody ever speaks of them again.Decades later, Laura Cumming delves into the mystery surrounding her mother’s disappearance. Examining everything from old family photos to letters, tickets and recipes, she uncovers a series of secrets and lies perpetuated not just by her family but by the whole community and in doing so unlocks a mystery almost a century old.’A moving, many-sided human story of great depth and tenderness, and a revelation of how art enriches life’ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize
Additional information
| Weight | 0.277 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 |
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| Year Published | 2020-4-2 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784708631 |
| About The Author | Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her book, The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, was Book of the Week on Radio 4, Wall Street Journal Book of the Year and a New York Times bestseller. It won the 2017 James Tait Black Biography Prize and was published to critical acclaim (‘A riveting detective story: readers will be spellbound’ Colm Tóibín). Her first book, A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits, was described by Nick Hornby as ‘Brilliant, fizzing with ideas not just about art but human nature’ and by Julian Barnes as ‘that rare item: an art book where the text is so enthralling that the pictures almost seem like an interruption’. |
| Review Quote | *Memoir of the Year* How we see — and who see and what secrets they choose to share — is at the heart of this exquisitely composed memoir… A peerless detective story that keeps you guessing to the end |
| Other text | On Chapel Sands is much more than a search for truth. It is a moving, many-sided human story of great depth and tenderness, and a revelation of how art enriches life. In short, a masterpiece |
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