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Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

by KeggieCarew (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

***Winner of the Costa Biography Award*** Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War. But his wartime exploits are only the start of it... Dadland is a manhunt. Keggie takes us on a spellbinding journey, in peace and war, into surprising and shady corners of history, her rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of her family, the corridors of dementia and beyond. As Keggie pieces Tom - and herself - back together again, she celebrates the technicolour life of an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 28 Jul 2016
ISBN 10: 1784740772
ISBN 13: 9781784740771
Book Overview: A story of war and grief, jealousy and madness, mischief and fierce love -- and a poignant exploration of what becomes of us as we grow old

Media Reviews
As Dad was losing his past... I was trying to retrieve it, Keggie writes... With the publication of this original, moving book, she has succeeded -- Paul Laity * Guardian (Review) *
Compelling and moving from start to finish... Carew's funny, fascinating and unflinching tribute to her father is a portrait of a complex man: not just a war hero but a flawed husband; not just a Jedburgh but her incorrigible and much-missed dad -- Melissa Harrison * Financial Times *
a thrilling, bloody, educative history of Churchill's Special Operations Executive... combined ingeniously with a tender, moving, funny portrait of the author's father -- Nick Hornby * Observer *
A fascinating mix of military history and family memoir studded with photographs... It's one woman's attempt to put her father's role in history on the page, at the same time as his own recollections of it diminish -- Cathy Rentzenbrink * The Times (Saturday Review) *
A poignant, inspiring and often comic account of family life and the man known as the T E Lawrence of Burma ... Ripping real-life yarns of double agents, secret messages, illicit assassinations and cyanide pills... the heroics and humour persist to the end -- Richard Benson * Mail on Sunday *
Author Bio
Keggie Carew has lived in London, West Cork, Barcelona, Texas and New Zealand. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. She lives near Salisbury. Tom Carew was born in Dublin in 1919. He served in the Jedburgh unit of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. The Times of India called him `Lawrence of Burma' and `the Mad Irishman'. He married three times, and had four children. He died in 2009.