My Life in Houses

By Margaret Forster

Book Overview

'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
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099593971
• ISBN13: 9780099593973
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"