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Dadland
Dadland | Keggie Carew
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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 get to know who her father really was. Tom Carew was a left-handed stutterer, a maverick and a law unto himself. As a member of the Jedburghs, an elite SOE unit, he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War. But his wartime exploits are only the start of it, and Keggie soon finds herself in a far more astonishing and consuming place than she had bargained for. 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. Part-detective story, part-memoir, part-history book, it is a celebration of the technicolour life an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man.
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RebelReader
Dadland | Keggie Carew
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My dad was the biggest pain in the a$$ and the most fun all rolled into one. He had all the toys….Harleys, snowmobiles,boats, campers and airplanes. I miss our talks late into the night solving all the world‘s problems and just talking about life. I miss card games at holidays, his quick wit and hearing him laugh.
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Erynecki
Dadland | Keggie Carew
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Family, war, dementia...a daughter reconstructs her father's wartime experiences with the elite special operations unit called the Jedburghs, through diaries, letters, newspaper stories, photos, and interviews just as her ailing father begins to lose his memories. Compelling and quite moving and I'm just 90 pages into the book.

Update: I made it to the halfway mark and I loved it for much of the read but then lost steam. My bad?

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Sue
Dadland | Keggie Carew
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Not what I expected but enjoyable just the same - Keggie Carew's look at her father's life when he starts losing his past to dementia. Full review at doddyaboutbooks.wordpress.com, with thanks to Netgalley and Randomhouse UK.

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shawnmooney
Dadland | Keggie Carew
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Sue I've been reading this one too :) 8y
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Sue
Dadland | Keggie Carew
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I should have been catching up on reading today, but the mountains called instead. #soznotsoz

BookishFeminist Beautiful! Your photos always make me want to pick up and move to Australia. 8y
erzascarletbookgasm What a view! 💗 8y
Sue @BookishFeminist @erzascarletbookgasm Thank you! I honestly can't imagine living anywhere else. I feel really lucky to have so many beautiful places close to home. 8y
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TeR Ya, Australia is amazing! 8y
Chessa Gorgeous! 😍 8y
Gulfsidemusing So beautiful! 8y
Megabooks Gorgeous! 8y
MrBook Nice mountains. 8y
Donna_sBookMinute This is a really beautiful scene. 8y
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