My life in houses
By: Margaret Forster
Edition: First Isis edition.
Publisher: Isis Large Print; F.A. Thorpe (Publishing)
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Anstey, Leicestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781785411106
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Housing; Psychological aspects; Large type books; Livres en gros caractères; Large print books; Homes
Description: Margaret Forster takes us on a journey through the houses she's lived in: from the council house in Carlisle where she was born in 1938, to her beloved London house of today - via the Lake District, Oxford, Hampstead, and a spell in the Mediterranean. This is not a book about bricks and mortar, but a book about what houses are to us, and the effect they have on the way we live our lives. It takes a backwards glance at the changing nature of our accommodation: from blacking grates and outside privies to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; and houses today being converted back into single dwellings, all open-plan spaces and bringing the outside in. It is also a very personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain 2014 by Chatto & Windus.
Table of contents: title: Orton Road; title: Richardson Street; title: Winchester Road; title: Heath Villas; title: Boscastle Road; title: Birbuda Street; title: Home again; title: Changing times; title: Grasmoor House; title: The house now.