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My Life in Houses - Margaret Forster
My Life in Houses
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‘I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, 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, built as part of a utopian vision by... show more
‘I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, 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, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead, the Lake District and a spell in the Mediterranean.

This is not a book about bricks and mortar, or about how a house becomes a home with the right scatter of cushions.

This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives. It is also a wonderful backwards glace at the changing nature of our accommodation: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to houses today being converted back into single dwellings, all open-plan spaces and bringing the outside in.

Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780701189105 (070118910X)
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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bookshelves: autumn-2014, published-2014, nonfiction, autobiography-memoir, radio-4, abandoned, snoozefest, next Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 21 to 27, 2014 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04prh8vDescription: Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's l...
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