My Life in Houses

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<p><b>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.</b> <b></b> So begins Margaret Forsters journey through the houses shes 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.</p>

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Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including<i>Have the Men Had Enough?</i>,<i>Lady's Maid</i>,<i>Diary of an Ordinary Woman</i>,<i>Is</i><i>There Anything You Want?</i><i>, Keeping the World Away</i>,<i>Over</i>and<i>The Unknown Bridesmaid</i>. She also wrote bestselling memoirs <i>Hidden Lives, Precious Lives</i>and, most recently,<i>My Life in Houses </i>and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel,<i>How to Measure a Cow</i>, was published.

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