Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her motherâ€™s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal villageâ€”and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cummingâ€™s 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 found in perfect health and happiness. 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 sheâ€™d been adopted, and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty.

In Five Days Gone, Laura Cumming brilliantly unspools the tale of her motherâ€™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 Using photographs from the time, historical documents, and works of art, Cumming investigates this case of stolen identity with the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to understand her familyâ€™s past and its legacies. Compulsive, vivid, and profoundly touching, Five Days Gone is a masterful blend of memoir and history, an extraordinary personal narrative unlike any other.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate 2019-08-27
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781501198717

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate	2019-08-27
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781501198717

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

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