"I tend to think in pictures because I'm an art critic and an art writer. I did discover who took her - and it was never the person we thought it was." Art education in action "Of course, I assumed that it would be more like the latter. My mother did not know that she was kidnapped until she was 60. The fact that she could remember nothing indicated that either it was traumatic - and perhaps her brain wiped it - or that it wasn't traumatic at all and it seemed like any other day. She was just three years old at the time. She remembered absolutely nothing at all about her kidnapping. "My mother did not know that she was kidnapped until she was 60. It appeared on many best of the year lists for 2019.Ĭumming spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from London.
A tender portrait of love and identity, the book is also an exploration of the link between pictures and truth, art and life.įive Days Gone was shortlisted for the U.K.'s Baillie Gifford Prize and the Costa Book Award for nonfiction. A blend of memoir, social history and visual art, Five Days Gone chronicles Cumming's investigation into her mother's story - for decades shrouded in silence and secrecy - and the surprising, and sometimes painful revelations she uncovers about her family along the way.
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