The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour
SHELLEY KLEIN
(CHATTO & WINDUS, 288 PP, £16.99)
Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • Tel 020 7799 4064

While most of us are confined to home – for better or worse – this book could hardly be more timely. Shelley Klein explores what is really meant by “home” through a luminous tribute to her father, Bernat Klein, and to the pioneering modernist house in the Scottish Borders that was his greatest creation. This visionary “see-through house” of timber and glass, designed by Peter Womersley and built in 1957, was the unconventional setting for her childhood, and the home to which she returned, after her mother’s death, to care for her elderly father.