{"product_id":"my-life-in-houses-9780701189105","title":"My Life in Houses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Life in Houses\u003c\/strong\u003e by Forster, Margaret. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780701189105.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e**As heard on BBC Radio 4**\n‘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.’\nSo 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.\nThis is not a book about bricks and mortar, or about how a house becomes a home with the right scatter of cushions.\nThis is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives. It is also a wonderful backwards glace at the changing nature of our accommodation: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to houses today being converted back into single dwellings, all open-plan spaces and bringing the outside in.\nFinally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949579235381,"sku":"ByrdShop_070118910X","price":91.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780701189105_62179cbd-0b68-4143-8a29-1de0d7518829.jpg?v=1778883882","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-life-in-houses-9780701189105","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}