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In 1939 the famous and influential architect Berthold Lubetkin stunned the British art world by abruptly leaving his thriving career in P London and dropping out of sight. "For reasons even his close friends never fully understood", according to a London Times obituary, he moved with his wife to a desolate farm in rural England that they named "World's End".
Lubetkin's reclusive years in the tiny village of Upper Killington in Gloucestershire were far from idyllic for his three children. "In This Dark House" depicts the atmosphere of oppressive isolation in which Louise Kehoe and her siblings lived with their tyrannical father, a committed communist, who sought to control every aspect of their lives. He was a mystery to them: by turns charming and witty, but also a terrorist in a self-styled Stalinist hell, who tolerated no dissent from his extreme political philosophy, and badgered and belittled his family in his fits of self-loathing. Even his true identity remained an enigma to them. They knew "Lubetkin" was an assumed name, but only he and his wife knew t
Lubetkin's reclusive years in the tiny village of Upper Killington in Gloucestershire were far from idyllic for his three children. "In This Dark House" depicts the atmosphere of oppressive isolation in which Louise Kehoe and her siblings lived with their tyrannical father, a committed communist, who sought to control every aspect of their lives. He was a mystery to them: by turns charming and witty, but also a terrorist in a self-styled Stalinist hell, who tolerated no dissent from his extreme political philosophy, and badgered and belittled his family in his fits of self-loathing. Even his true identity remained an enigma to them. They knew "Lubetkin" was an assumed name, but only he and his wife knew t
