Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House

by Julie Myerson

Book Overview

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives.

This is the biography of a house, the history of a home. It's an ordinary house, an ordinary home, and ordinary people have lived there for over a century. But start to explore who they were, what they believed in, what they desired and they soon become as remarkable, as complicated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007148232
• ISBN13: 9780007148233
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

History of a house

This is especially fascinating reading for anyone who has dabbled in genealogy, as we've all gone through the frustration of trying to link generations of families without more than the barest clues. This is the story of a house in a London suburb,Clapham. Built in the latter part of the 19th century, it's been a family home, rooming house and home to a cast of characters as diverse as the decades they occupied. Author Julie Myerson and her family all became interested in locating the descendants of the original occupiers and scour phone books, parish records and council documents in an attempt to flesh out the names and to make them real. What they found were ordinary people, living ordinary lives and some villians, family black sheep and con men. In the final wind up of the story, the author has included real letters from some of the hundreds of descendants of these folk, all adding their individual memories, which adds sauce to the pot! The only note of discontent that I had with the book was the typeface, Minion, in which it was printed...mean, squinty little print which made for uncomfortable reading.