My Life in Houses
by Margaret Forster
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Pub Date 6 Nov 2014 | Archive Date 4 Dec 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
‘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.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth and Europe excluding Canada
Marketing Plan
In the reflective memoir tradition of Penelope Lively's Ammonites and Leaping Fish,Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking or Diana Athill; with the domestic social history of Gillian Tindall's The House on the Thames; Julie Myerson's Home
Margaret Forster is a consistently strong seller, both front- and backlist and in fiction and non-fiction: Diary of an Ordinary Woman sold 135,000 copies in total; Keeping the World Away sold 68,000; recent titles have sold an average of 50,000; The Unknown Bridesmaid has sold 20,000 copies in Chatto and Vintage edition ordered by all supermarkets
Personal,
moving, unsentimental. One of our most loved writers meditates on what
houses, and home, mean to us. Her very personal story ends with a moment
of the purest clarity -- very moving and beautiful
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448192571 |
| PRICE | £9.98 (GBP) |
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