For there are secrets in the village and in the neighbouring village of Hogsthorpe. She also examines Betty’s adoptive parents, George and Veda, already in their 40s, trying to isolate Betty from everyone around them and stop her mixing with others. Cummings is an art historian and manages to get more from photographs than most of us would be able to: she takes objects and gives them meaning and pieces together life in an English village in the 1930s. Cummings in this account pieces together the mystery of her mother’s upbringing from some clues, some accounts from the descendants of those involved and an assortment of photographs.
It was not until many years later and Cummings and her mother discovered that in 1929 three year old Betty was kidnapped from Chapel Sands and was not found for five days: dressed in entirely different clothes and unharmed. Her mother was born in 1926, is still living and was adopted at the age of three. Laura Cummings’s mother was brought up there and Cummings has set out to piece together her mother’s upbringing. Being a Lincolnshire lad I therefore had to read this. This book has its origins and setting in Chapel St Leonards, a village on the Lincolnshire coast.
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