Dadland /
by Carew, Keggie.
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BookPublisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2018Edition: Large print edition.Description: 560 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781444836400; 1444836404.Classification number: 940.5486 CARSubject(s): Carew, Keggie | Carew, Tom (Thomas Arthur) | Carew, Tom (Thomas Arthur) -- Mental health | Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography | Dementia -- Patients -- Fiction | Autobiographies | Large type booksSummary: 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... Through her rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of her family, the corridors of dementia and beyond, Keggie pieces herself - and Tom - back together again, and celebrates the life of an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man.
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| 940.5449 SWE The dambusters raid | 940.5472 MAC Colditz : prisoners of the castle / | 940.5481 REE Their darkest hour | 940.5486 CAR Dadland / | 941.085 MAR A history of modern Britain | 941.435 DOU Night song of the last tram / | 942 FOG English / |
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... Through her rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of her family, the corridors of dementia and beyond, Keggie pieces herself - and Tom - back together again, and celebrates the life of an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man.
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