Dadland, Keggie Carew
Dadland, Keggie Carew
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Dadland

Author: Keggie Carew

Narrator: Pippa Haywood, Robert Bathurst, Tom Golding, Dermot Crowley

Unabridged: 13 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2017


Synopsis

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.

Foreword and afterword read by the author.

About The Author

Keggie Carew has lived in London, West Cork, Barcelona, Texas and New Zealand. Before writing her career was in contemporary art. More recently she has studied English Literature at Goldsmiths, run an alternative art space called JAGO and opened a pop-up shop in the East End of London called theworldthewayiwantit. She lives near Salisbury.


Reviews

Powerful memoir of love and memory A daughter pieces together her father’s wartime history while his own memories fade away through dementia. Keggie Carew has produced an usual book that is part military history and part journey of discovery into her father’s life and the challenges of caring for some......more

Goodreads review by Irena

One of the best things I've read in a long, long time. Reminiscent in parts of "H Is for Hawk" for its intense, plangent sadness, but very much its own animal—a mesmerizing hybrid, part war history, part memoir, suffused by the incredible energy and life force of Tom Carew, the author's father, who......more

Goodreads review by Claire

Loved this so much. Made me laugh, and made me cry. Even the war stuff (that lots of people didn't seem to like) kept me gripped. Very likely to be in my top 10 books of the year......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb

Dadland: A Journey Into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew won the Costa Book Award for Biography (2016), and it's easy to see why. Keggie Carew's father Tom Carew was a war hero and an unconventional father. As Tom succumbs to dementia, Keggie tries to piece together his life story. Dadland: A Jour......more