In This Dark House: A Memoir-Fast Shipping

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In 1939 the influential architect Berthold Lubetkin abruptly left his thriving careerin London and dropped out of sight, moving with his wife to a desolate farm in ruralGloucestershire. Life in the house the Lubetkins named “World’s End” was far fromidyllic for their three children. Louise Kehoe and her siblings lived in an atmosphereof oppressive isolation, while their tyrannical father—at times charming and wittybut usually a terrorist in a self-styled Stalinist hell—badgered and belittled themduring his fits of self-loathing. Even his true identity remained an enigma. Thatsecret was never divulged during her father’s lifetime, but Louise’s quest to unearthits tragic origins—her relentless piecing together of the clues she found after hisdeath—is a remarkable story, written with extraordinary grace, style, and imagination,of an identity and a heritage lost and found.