My Life in Houses Forster Margaret
My Life in Houses Forster Margaret '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. This is not a book about…
Specifikacia My Life in Houses Forster Margaret
My Life in Houses Forster Margaret
'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. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. 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.
Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of 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.