Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Houses Lost and Found
6. 1. Moving House 3
7. 2. Built on Memory 18
8. 3. A House of Air 30
9. Family Houses
10. 4. My Mother’s House 47
11. 5. At Orchard House 52
12. 6. Romantic Home 55
13. Dream Houses
14. 7. At Home with Tennyson 71
15. 8. Chartwell 82
16. Creative Houses
17. 9. The Quangle Wangle’s Hat 95
18. 10. Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh 109
19. 11. 77 St. Mark’s Place 124
20. 12. Samuel Johnson’s Houses 133
21. House-Proud
22. 13. The Manor 149
23. 14. At Home with the Disraelis 151
24. 15. H. G. Wells at Uppark 160
25. Unhoused
26. 16. The Fear of Houses 177
27. 17. When There Is No House to Visit 189
28. 18. “A Place One Can Go Mad In” 201
29. 19. Safe Houses 213
30. The Afterlives of Houses
31. 20. “When All Is Ruin Once Again” 217
32. 21. W. H. Auden in Austria 232
33. 22. John Soane and House Autobiography 246
34. 23. Ainola 257
35. Acknowledgements 264
36. Contributors 265
37. Notes 273
38. Index 289