In This Dark House: A Memoir
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ISBN: 0805241221 / Publisher: Schocken Books, October 1995
The youngest daughter of avant-garde architect Berthold Lubetkin recounts her life on the family's desolate southern England farm, describing Lubetkin's fiercely Communist beliefs and the tyrannical hold he kept on his children
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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.
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