Dadland

"This riveting blend of personal memoir, biography and World War II military history grew from Keggie Carew’s determination to get a handle on her irrepressible firebrand of a father as he lapsed into dementia in his 80s. As a member of the Jedburghs, an elite multinational special operations resistance force that parachuted behind enemy lines in France and Burma, Tom Carew was a true hero – at war, if not at home. One of the issues his daughter explores with sensitivity and humor is the challenge of following such death-defying exploits with the relative doldrums of domestic life."