***Winner of the Costa Biography Award***Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived onhis wits and dazzling charm. As Keggie pieces Tom - and herself - back together again, she celebrates the technicolour life of an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man.
Vintage's big narrative non-fiction title for 2016. Part-detective story, part-memoir, part-history book, the author embarks on a quest to unravel the story of her father, who was part of an elite SOE unit during WW2.