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Item Details
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MY LIFE IN HOUSES
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| By: |
Margaret Forster |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
070118910X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780701189105 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
6 November, 2014 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Presents author's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her London house, via Oxford, Hampstead, the Lake District and a spell in the Mediterranean. This book is about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives. |
| Synopsis: |
As heard on BBC Radio 4, '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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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