Presents author's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her London house, via Oxford, Hampstead, the Lake District and a spell in the Mediterranean. This book is about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives

A book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives. It is also backwards glance at the changing nature of our accommodation: from blacking grates and outside privies; to houses today being converted back into single dwellings, all open-plan spaces and bringing the outside in. A reflective memoir in the tradition of Penelope Lively's }Ammonites & Leaping Fish