â 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.â So begins Margaret Forsterâ s journey through the houses sheâ s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today.
â 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.â So begins Margaret Forsterâ s journey through the houses sheâ s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today.
Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs - Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses - 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, How to Measure a Cow, was published.
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I was truly moved by Margaret Forster's ingeniously structured and beautifully written memoir... A really wonderful book Juliet Nicolson Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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