My Life in Houses
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780099593973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Forster |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.200 |
| Publishing Date | 25/02/2016 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.97 |
| Tax | €0.78 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.75 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
‘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.