In This Dark House: A Memoir - Tapa blanda

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD* "A marvelously lucid account of a savage childhood, and of the family conspiracy that engendered it." --Anita Brookner "Well constructed and beautifully written, [with] an emotional honesty which generates its own kind of lasting truth." --The Times Literary Supplement "An astonishing, impossible-to-put-down page-turner of a book! Kehoe's tale will elicit glimmers of recognition in anyone who has wondered how to go about freeing oneself from the world which begins at home."--Daphne Merkin, author of Dreaming of Hitler "At once a memoir and a reminder of how the global and the intensely personal inextricable intertwine. An awesome an exhilarating tale."--Carolyn See, author of The Handyman "Eloquent . . . As in the best fiction, the story ultimately makes a scramble of our easy moralizing. This memoir . . . transcends its own form, becoming a testament to the ways in which historical ills sicken the individual soul."--Newsday

Denied the barest facts of their father's life before he came to England, the children of renowned architect Berthold Lubetkin had no way of understanding his volatile and often violent behaviour. Desperately craving his love and approval, they could never know him. Only after his death did his youngest daughter, Louise, begin slowly to discover the truth he'd been hiding, and started to make sense of his past - and therefore her own.