On Chapel Sands - My mother and other missing persons

Informationen zum Autor Laura Cumming has been chief art critic of the Observer since 1999. Her books include A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits (2009) and The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (2016) which won the James Tait Black Biography Prize. Her family memoir, On Chapel Sands: my Mother and other Missing Persons (2019) was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Costa and Rathbone's Folio prizes. Klappentext The mystery of a mother's disappearance is explored by prize-winning author and art critic Laura Cumming, incorporating writing on art and photographs as Cumming uses these to set the mystery to rights. Zusammenfassung **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' Guardian Autumn 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 Times Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize

Product details

• Authors: Laura Cumming, Cumming Laura
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781784708634
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-863-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Theory of art, European History, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Lincolnshire, True stories: general, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Local and family history, nostalgia