My Life in Houses

Autori

• Margaret Forster

Parametri

• 272 pagine
• 10 ore di lettura

• Autobiografie e memorie
• Biografie e pensieri
• Letteratura britannica
• Saggistica
• Storia

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2016

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