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Laura Cumming

Laura Cumming

Laura Cumming is one of the most celebrated memoirists at work today. Her bestselling, recent book, On Chapel Sands, was hailed as ‘a modern masterpiece’ by the Guardian and ‘a book bursting with love – love lost and love found, love misunderstood, unsaid and denied’. It was shortlisted for the Costa, Baillie Gifford and Rathbones Folio prizes. Her previous book, The Vanishing Man, praised by the Independent as ‘beautifully compelling’, won the James Tait Black Biography Prize.

Her most recent book is the critically acclaimed Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art, Life and Sudden Death.