· Five days gone: the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child. It was a crisp autumn day in when Veda Elston took three-year-old Betty to the beach to play with her new pail and shovel in the seaside Lincolnshire village of Chapel St. Leonards on England’s east coast, just a short walk from their home. In Five Days Gone, Laura Cumming brilliantly unspools the tale of her mother’s 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 Using photographs from the time, historical documents, and works of art, Cumming investigates this case of stolen identity with the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to 4/5(). · Laura Cumming is my new favourite nonfiction author. I read The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece last year and was completely blown away by it. This is why I was so excited to read Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child. I am happy to report that I was not disappointed/5.
The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child. By Laura Cumming. Trade Paperback. (originally titled Five Days Gone) unspools the tale of Cumming's mother's 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 Using photographs from the time, historical documents, and works of art, Cumming investigates this case of stolen. Buy Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child Illustrated by Cumming, Laura (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Autumn - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The child remembers nothing of these events and at home, nobody ever speaks of them again. Decades later, Laura Cumming delves into the mystery surrounding her mother's disappearance.
'Five Days Gone' is a memoir of a child who was kidnaped in the fall of for 5 days in Lincolnshire (a county in eastern England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east). A substantial piece of the book is about Elizabeth (other nam This was an outstanding memoir by Laura Cumming about her mother, Elizabeth (other names: Grace, Betty). Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades. Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child. Laura Cumming. Scribner, $26 (p) ISBN English author Cumming (The Vanishing Velàzquez) unravels the.
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