Laura Cumming.
LAURA CUMMING
ON chapel sands: MY MOTHER AND OTHER MISSING PERSONS (2019)
Shortlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Laura Cumming’s mother disappeared from a Lincolnshire beach at the age of three, and was only found after five days. Laura Cumming uncovers an extraordinary family story of dark secrets, betrayal and shame - and the silence of the community within which this occurred. The Guardian review described the book as ‘a modern masterpiece’. The Scotsman described it as ‘riveting’.
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Laura Cumming has been the art critic of the Observer since 1999. After studying literature at university she moved to London in her early twenties, working in publishing then in journalism. She has also published a highly regarded biography of the painter Velasquez. Brought up in Scotland, she is the daughter of the artists James Cumming and Betty Elston.
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Cumming, Laura. Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez.