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My Life in Houses

Margaret Forster

From Shelf: Memoirs and Other Non-Fiction Gems

'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today.

'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099593973
Published Date:
25/2/2016
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight:
191g
Category:
Memoirs

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099593973


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