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‘Dadland’ by Keggie Carew.
Thu 12 Mar
|The Painswick Centre
Keggie Carew won the Costa Book Prize for this stunning memoir of her enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War in occupied France and Burma, in peacetime he lived off his wits and dazzling charm, but these were never enough to sustain a family.
Time & Location
12 Mar 2026, 19:30 – 21:30
The Painswick Centre, Bisley St, Painswick, Stroud GL6 6QQ, UK
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About the event
(NB due to diary issues, this is the Second Thursday of the month)
Keggie Carew won the Costa Book Prize for this stunning memoir of her enigmatic father. An
undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War in occupied France and Burma, in peacetime
he lived off his wits and dazzling charm, but these were never enough to sustain a family. Carew
pieces together his extraordinary war record as she struggles with his failing health in the last years of
his life, and reckons with the history of their relationship. She will be in conversation with Madeleine
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