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My Life in Houses

Hardcover • 2014 • English

My Life in Houses

By Margaret Forster

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About the book

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, o...Show more

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ISBN

9780701189105

Publisher

Chatto Windus

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

My Life in Houses

Format

Hardcover

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