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)
Compelling and moving from start to finish... Carew's funny, fascinating and unflinching tribute to her father is a portrait of a complex man: not just ... Read morea war hero but a flawed husband; not just a Jedburgh but her incorrigible and much-missed dad
Melissa Harrison
Financial Times
a thrilling, bloody, educative history of Churchill's Special Operations Executive... combined ingeniously with a tender, moving, funny portrait of the author's father
Nick Hornby
Observer
A fascinating mix of military history and family memoir studded with photographs... It's one woman's attempt to put her father's role in history on the page, at the same time as his own recollections of it diminish
Cathy Rentzenbrink
The Times (Saturday Review)
A poignant, inspiring and often comic account of family life and the man known as the T E Lawrence of Burma ... Ripping real-life yarns of double agents, secret messages, illicit assassinations and cyanide pills... the heroics and humour persist to the end
Richard Benson
Mail on Sunday
A beautifully written, funny and tender ode to an adventurous, occasionally frustrating, man who lived life at full tilt
Good Housekeeping
It's now commonplace to say that sad memoirs are ultimately redemptive, but Dadland is the real McCoy. It is a rich and stunning achievement, a feat of imagination that sews together many parallel true stories. Above all, it is a labour of shining daughterly love
Caroline Sanderson
Sunday Express (S Magazine)
I was so absorbed and moved by Dadland I haven't been able to read anything else. It is beautifully written
deft and funny and so tender
but I have also come away knowing more about history, more about dementia, more about men, more about daughters, more about love, family, sheds, diaries, an inquisitive mind and peeing in plastic bottles. I loved it. I really did.
Rachel Joyce Powerful memoir... The clouding of Tom's mind never eclipsed his charm ... Dadland is no tragedy, threaded as it is with forgiveness, love and a fine, fierce comic glitter
Jane Shilling
Telegraph
Keggie turns spy on her father. She is on a ghost hunt ... What she uncovers is an extraordinary gift for any memoirist... fascinating
Helen Davies
The Sunday Times
How lovely to discover a book that makes one seize friends by the lapels and implore them, Read this ... wonderful
Valerie Grove
Literary Review
Gripping, heartfelt, moving and quite unlike anything Esquire has had the pleasure of reading this year... outstandingly good
Esquire
Dadland [had me] gripped from beginning to end.
Philippe Sands
Financial Times, Book of the Year
Dadland [had me] gripped from beginning to end.
Philippe Sands
Financial Times, Book of the Year
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