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Carew, Keggie.
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Carew, Tom (Thomas Arthur)
Carew, Keggie.
Carew, Tom (Thomas Arthur) -- Mental health
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Dementia -- Patients -- Biography.
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Dadland : a journey into uncharted territory / Keggie
Carew
.
by
Carew
, Keggie.
Chatto & Windus, 2016.
Call #:
941.08209 C272d
Subjects
Carew
,
Tom
(
Thomas
Arthur
)
Carew
, Keggie.
Carew
,
Tom
(
Thomas
Arthur
) -- Mental health
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Dementia -- Patients -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781784740764 (hc.)
Description:
415 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
Awards:
Winner of Costa Biography Award 2017.
Genre:
Biographies.
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