RaveThe Sunday Times... [an] enthralling book ... How to notice details that others have missed is another of Cumming’s skills, and she develops it while investigating her mother’s mystery ... For her and her mother, art is common currency, and they give famous artworks private meanings ... A lesson the book teaches is how greatly ordinary things matter, even the humblest ... New evidence about the crime with which the story starts keeps emerging until the last page. By the end you know more than you could ever have guessed about all the actors in the drama. But On Chapel Sands is much more than a search for truth. It is a moving, many-sided human story of great depth and tenderness, and a revelation of how art enriches life. In short, a masterpiece.
