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On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming
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On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons

by Laura Cumming

***Shortlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction***

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“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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