***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.
