In This Dark House

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.