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‘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.
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My Life in Houses, Margaret Forster
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2016
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- Titolo
- My Life in Houses
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Margaret Forster
- Editore
- Vintage
- Pubblicato
- 2016
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0099593971
- ISBN13
- 9780099593973
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storie vere, Biografie, Storia, Autobiografie e memorie, Letteratura britannica
- Valutazione
- 4,05 su 5
- Descrizione
- ‘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.