The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller winner of the Costa Biography Award Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox enigmatic father An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War in peacetime he lived on his wits & dazzling charm But these were not always enough to sustain a family As his memory began to fail Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once & for all Dadland is that journey It takes us into shadowy corners of history a madcap English childhood the poignant breakdown of a family the corridors of dementia & beyond OH THIS BOOK Beautiful & fierce & brave Memory & war & family & loss & well wow' Helen Macdonald author of H is for Hawk 'A thrilling history of Churchill's Special Operations Executive combined ingeniously with a tender moving funny portrait of the author's father' Nick Hornby Observer