Keggie Carew

Dadland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A poignant and engaging family memoir about a daughter who is racing to assemble her father's story-one that includes parachuting into France and Burma for British special forces during World War II-as his mind dissolves into dementia

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 143mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780802127631
• ISBN-10: 0802127630
• Artikelnr.: 48250380

Autorenporträt

Keggie Carew has lived in London, West Cork, Barcelona, Texas and New Zealand.
Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. She lives near Salisbury.

Tom Carew was born in Dublin in 1919. He served in the Jedburgh unit of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. The Times of India called him 'Lawrence of Burma' and 'the Mad Irishman'. He married three times, and had four children. He died in 2009.

Rezensionen

"As Dad was losing his past... I was trying to retrieve it," Keggie writes... With the publication of this original, moving book, she has succeeded Paul Laity Guardian (Review)