![]() This is the feature of the book that most people will probably have heard about, the fact that as a small child Betty was kidnapped while on Chapel Sands, near her Lincolnshire home, and was missing for three days before being returned unharmed. However, as the search progresses it becomes apparent that there is something in her history that she has either truly forgotten or subliminally suppressed. Pretty much all that her mother knows is that she was adopted. The book tells the story of Cumming’s attempts to find the truth about her mother, Betty’s, background. Now, it appears in paperback, and having missed it the first time round I thought that I ought to make the effort to catch up with it. ![]() First published last July, it was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2019 and was chosen by Radio 4 for serialisation last summer. ![]() ![]() On Chapel Sands has already made something of a stir in the book world. ![]()
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