![]() ![]() This was not the only secret her parents kept from her. To the contrary, they deliberately hid it from her, and she did not learn of it for half a century. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never discussed it. 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 found in perfect health and happiness. ![]() 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. Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village-and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades. ![]()
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