· Description. ‘I was born on 25th May, , 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. · My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster, review: 'an ingenious structure'. Looking back at her homes, the late Margaret Forster found that walls can Is Accessible For Free: False. ‘I was born on 25th May, , 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.5/5(1).
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Forster is very particular and precise about the houses she has lived in, starting from modest origins in the late 's on a council estate in Carlisle, and progressing through lodgings in Oxford, as a student, to renting with her husband Hunter Davies in the Vale of Health, and then, as they both became successful writers, buying their first house (where they have lived for over 50 years) in Kentish Town, and also including a couple of residences in Malta and Portugal, where they decamped. 'I was born on , in the front bedroom of 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. To tell her story through the various houses that she lived in throughout her life is a device that works well, providing a backdrop to how her life developed, from childhood, through school, college, University, marriage, career and family.
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