# My Life in Houses

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- Book: [My Life in Houses](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-forster/my-life-in-houses) ([My Life in Houses.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-forster/my-life-in-houses.md))
- Authors: [Margaret Forster](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-forster)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9959-397-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2016-02-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.