Yesterday's Houses

When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers, a naive but curious lower middle-class girl meets the well-off Charles and accepts his proposal of marriage she believes her dreams of living in a beautiful house with a luxurious bathroom are about to come true. But life rarely turns out as one dreams. Over the next twenty-five years Marianne finds herself moving from grotty apartment to suburban haven and back again, accompanied by various lovers, a daughter and a yearning to write.Yesterday’s Houses shows Mavis Cheek at the height of her powers in this poignant, funny account of a woman whose journey to freedom, independence and good quality plumbing will delight fans of her previous work and new readers alike.