![]() ![]() Not until she was an adult, married, with children of her own did she and her mother take on the adventure of sniffing out the details, only to find a community reluctant to share the minutiae of not only the event, but the child’s life in full.īetty Elston was adopted by George and Veda Elston, a middle-aged couple, when she was three years old. Throughout her own life, Cumming knew of this tantalizing mystery, but the details were buried in the fog of time. ![]() For five days a frantic community searches for the little girl, when suddenly she appears back home in good health and with new clothes.įive Days Gone by Laura Cumming is a passionate and poignant story about a search for five days in her mother’s life-five days of which her mother has absolutely no recall whatsoever. In 1929, three-year-old Betty Elston is playing on the beach, and suddenly she isn’t. She follows even the smallest of crumbs, determined to learn about her mother’s abduction and, further still, the secrets of her birth.” “Cumming, an art critic, journalist, and author, has a grasp of the language that flows through a number of twists and turns that the story takes. ![]()
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