{"product_id":"on-chapel-sands-my-mother-and-other-missing-persons-laura-cumming","title":"On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons - Laura Cumming","description":"\u003cp\u003eUncovering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was another fifty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo many puzzles remained to be solved. Cumming began 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Chapel Sands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a book of mystery and memoir. Two narratives run through it: the mother's childhood tale; and Cumming's own pursuit of the truth. Humble objects light up the story: a pie dish, a carved box, an old Vick's jar. Letters, tickets, recipe books, even the particular slant of a copperplate hand give vital clues. And pictures of all kinds, from paintings to photographs, open up like doors to the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove all, Cumming discovers how to look more closely at the family album - with its curious gaps and missing persons - finding crucial answers, captured in plain sight at the click of a shutter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55575873159548,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/ocs-lc-01.jpg?v=1753445323","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/on-chapel-sands-my-mother-and-other-missing-persons-laura-cumming","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}