Dadland
A Journey into Uncharted Territory
by Keggie Carew
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Pub Date Jan 05 2017 | Archive Date Feb 21 2017
Description
Discover a daughter’s journey into her father’s past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.
Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. But these were not always enough to sustain a family.
As his memory began to fail, Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once and for all. Dadland is that journey. It takes us into shadowy corners of history, a madcap English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, the corridors of dementia and beyond.
‘OH THIS BOOK. Beautiful and fierce and brave. Memory and war and family and loss and, well, wow’ Helen Macdonald, bestselling author of H is for Hawk
'A thrilling history of Churchill's Special Operations Executive... combined ingeniously with a tender, moving, funny portrait of the author’s father' Nick Hornby, Observer
A Note From the Publisher
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.
Advance Praise
'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, FT
'"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
'It's now commonplace to say that sad memoirs are ultimately redemptive, but Dadland
is the real McCoy. It is a rich and stunning achievement, a feat of
imagination that sews together many parallel true stories. Above all, it
is a labour of shining daughterly love'
Caroline Sanderson, Sunday Express
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781784703158 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 432 |
