Cumming Laura Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother`s Disappearance as a Child 9781501198724

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Автор: Cumming Laura
Название: Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother`s Disappearance as a Child
ISBN: 9781501198724
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1501198726
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 23.06.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 137 x 23
Поставляется из: США
Описание: NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ONE OF NPRS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares a riveting true story with as many twists and turns as any mystery (Los Angeles Times) describing her mothers mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village--an incredible and incredibly unusual book about family secrets (Nick Hornby, The Believer).

In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cummings mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was happy and in perfect health. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never discussed it. To the contrary, they deliberately hid it from her, and she did not learn of it for half a century.

This was not the only secret her parents kept from her. For many years, while raising her in draconian isolation and protectiveness, they also hid the fact that shed been adopted, and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty.

Both page-turning and richly absorbing (The Providence Journal), On Chapel Sands (originally titled Five Days Gone) unspools the tale of Cummings mothers life and unravels the multiple mysteries at its core. Using photographs from the time, historical documents, and works of art, Cumming investigates this case of stolen identity with the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to understand her familys past and its legacies. Brilliant (The Guardian) and a story told with such depth of feeling and observation and such lyrical writing I couldnt put it down (Anna Quindlen), On Chapel Sands is a masterful blend of memoir and history, an extraordinary personal narrative unlike any other.

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother`s Disappearance as a Child, Cumming Laura