Claire Armistead introduces Laura Cumming and 'On Chapel Sands'.

Journalist, Claire Armistead (English, 1977), introduces award-winning writer, art critic, and author of 'On Chapel Sands', Laura Cumming (English, 1979). Cumming’s mother, who grew up to be an artist, was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach in 1929 and found five days later in a local village. She remembered nothing of the events and only learned of them 50 years later.
‘On Chapel Sands is much more than a search for truth. It is a moving, many-sided human story of great depth and tenderness, and a revelation of how art enriches life. In short, a masterpiece.’ – John Carey

On Chapel Sands has just been longlisted for this year's Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, rewarding fiction, non-fiction or poetry which best evokes the spirit of a place.