On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
by Laura Cumming
***Shortlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction***
Recommendations from our site
“Laura Cummings is an art critic, and as a piece of writing, this sort of stands as an artwork in itself. She’s reporting the mysterious things that happened to her mother when she was a child. It’s written with real clarity and limpidity.” Read more...
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