Dadland [GRPL Book Club]Dadland [GRPL Book Club]
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
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Book Club Kit, 2018
Current format, Book Club Kit, 2018, First Grove Atlantic paperback edition, All copies in use.Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who, despite his technicolor life, was always an enigma. After decades of estrangement, Keggie reunites with her father just as his memory begins to fail. Setting out on a mission to unravel the secrets of his past, Keggie quickly finds herself on a roller-coaster journey into surprising corners of twentieth-century war and peace. During the Second World War, Tom Carew was a secret agent, parachuted behind enemy lines to help raise guerrilla resistance first against the Germans in France, then against the Japanese in Southeast Asia, where, as a pipe-smoking, sarong-clad twenty-five-year-old, he was called the "Mad Irishman" and "Lawrence of Burna." In peace-time Tom lived on his wits and irresistible charm, but these were not always the best ingredients to sustain a family. Part detective story, part history, and part biography, woven together with Keggie's personal experience of growing up with her dazzling yet maddening father, Dadland is an epic story of success, failure, grief, jealousy, madness, mischief, memory, and most fiercely of all, love.--Back cover.
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