In this dark house
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Louise Kehoe.
Publisher: Schocken Books; Distributed by Pantheon Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Lubetkin, Berthold, 1901-; Kehoe, Louise, 1949-  -- Family.; Architects -- England -- Biography.
Description: In This Dark House is a riveting memoir of a daughter's search to uncover the true identity of a mysterious father whose secretive past extends long shadows on a family's life. In 1939, at the pinnacle of an eminent career as an avant-garde architect, Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin, not yet forty years old, stunned the British art world by leaving his thriving practice in London and moving with his wife to a desolate farm in rural England they called World's End.

Only after his death at the age of eighty-eight did Louise begin slowly to discover the tragic truth he had been hiding all his life - a truth that would become the heart of her own. In this extraordinary memoir Louise Kehoe gives us a haunting account of her recovery of self in the revelation of her father's secret - an unforgettable story of lost and found.