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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

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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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""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)

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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.

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