Five Days Gone
The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
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Narrateur(s):
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Kate Reading
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Auteur(s):
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Laura Cumming
À propos de cet audio
Nominated for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize
The acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares a riveting true story “with as many twists and turns as any mystery” (Los Angeles Times) describing her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village - “an incredible and incredibly unusual book about family secrets” (Nick Hornby, The Believer).
In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’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 happy and in perfect health. 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 she’d been adopted and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty.
“Both page-turning and richly absorbing” (The Providence Journal), On Chapel Sands (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 Using photographs from the time, historical documents, and works of art, Cumming investigates this case of stolen identity with the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to understand her family’s past and its legacies. “Brilliant” (The Guardian) and “a story told with such depth of feeling and observation and such lyrical writing I couldn’t put it down” (Anna Quindlen), On Chapel Sands is a masterful blend of memoir and history, an extraordinary personal narrative unlike any other.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Jackie
- 2020-01-19
May be better read, rather than listened to.
Overall the story was very interesting. It reminded and explained the early ways of thinking, for my parents and grandParents. It brings the reader through twists and turns of circumstance and emotions of the people involved.
The vivid description of the surroundings, helped set the stage of the time; however I am not sure if it was the writing, or the reading that made it hard to distinguish who the passage was talking about half the time. “I” went from meaning “Betty” to “Laura”, in one sentence to another. Perhaps it could have been the monotone of the narrator, particularly in the beginning, or not having the words in front of me.
I believe this book would have been better read, than listen to.
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- Roberta W
- 2024-05-27
Fascinating
We forget much of what happened in our childhood, let alone not grasping or recalling those things intentionally hidden from us. A fascinating tale of rediscovery, investigating, uncovering mysteries and untangling it all to result in new discoveries. Good listening.
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- emma
- 2023-10-24
hard to follow
Did not finish this book as it was confusing. "I" went from meaning the narrator Laura to the mother Betty within a single sentence so you are never sure who you are reading about.
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- Kimberley
- 2021-03-20
Disappointed
Lots of bits and Pieces all over the place. So much unneeded details. Did not enough this book.
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