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On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons

Laura Cumming

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On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons

In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them. It was another 50 years before she even learned of the kidnap. The girl became an artist and had a daughter, art writer Laura Cumming. Cumming grew up enthralled by her mother's strange tales of life in a seaside hamlet of the 1930s, and of the secrets and lies perpetuated by a whole community. Cumming began investigating with a few criss-crossing lives in this fraction of English coast - the postman, the grocer, the elusive baker - but soon her search spread right out across the globe as she discovered just how many lives were affected by what happened that day on the beach - including her own. 'On Chapel Sands' is a work of mystery and memoir.

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ISBN-13
9781004005321
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Family secrets and identityKidnapping mysteryEnglish coastal community life

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