When Shelley Klein moved home to High Sunderland to take care of her elderly father, she was welcomed back into its glass rooms as the girl she once was, but the furniture and house plants she’d accumulated in the 30-years passed were not. This wasn’t wholly unexpected, however reignited a familiar tension between her and the man she both refuted and revered.

Part memoir, part heart-felt eulogy, Shelley maps her father’s life and career through the floorplan of the house he built for her and her siblings; from glass hallways, to the living and bedrooms, and finally to the garden where the children say their last goodbyes to an eccentric and fastidious, but ultimately adored father.

A touching and timely account of familial love, The See-Through House arrives with all the greater earnest in our period of lockdown, compelling readers to appreciate the importance of home and family anew.