(Blurb sourced from my copy: Chatto & Windus, 2019). And pictures of all kinds, from paintings to photographs, open up like doors to the truth.Ībove all, Cumming looks more closely at the family album – with its curious gaps and missing persons – to find crucial answers, captured in plain site at the click of a shutter. Humble objects light up the story: a pie dish an old Vick’s jar even the particular slant of a copperplate hand give vital clues. On Chapel Sands is a book of mystery and memoir. Cumming’s pursuit of the truth begins on this fraction of English coast but soon her search spreads right out across the globe as she discovers how many lives were affected by what happened that day on the beach – including her own. Laura 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. It was another fifty years before she even learned of the kidnap. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them at home.
Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach.
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