Fascinating... A treasure chest, bursting with facts and thoughts about what homes mean and how they have been lived in: a perfect book to curl up with in the comfort of your own. --Frances Wilson, Mail on Sunday From the humble shack to the modern high-rise, Judith Flanders brilliantly illuminates the meaning of "home" throughout history. The Making of Home is a fascinating and ambitious exploration into the soul of family life. We are more than what we eat, we are also how we live. --Amanda Foreman In this clever and entertaining book Flanders gives the everyday, from bed-making to drainpipes, all the vivid interest of something newly made strange. --Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times A delicious yet nerdy treat... This book deserves a place on your shelves, bedside table, or ottoman --The Times Even though I often wanted to argue with its author, I loved this book. --Victoria Glendinning, Literary Review The Making of Home is filled with bold arguments and memorable details... A compelling account of what was gained and lost in the quest for cosiness --Ben Highmore, Observer Magnificent... Wonderfully rich and witty --Bee Wilson, TLS Judith Flanders has many interesting, and sometimes startling, things to say about what domesticity means to us, how that meaning changed - and how it has endured... She is an efficient debunker of myths about poverty, family and the past. --Lucy Lethbridge, Financial Times This is a hugely informative book, and worth reading for the feminist chapter on women's changing roles alone. An absorbing read. --Daily Express Thought-provoking... Deeply absorbing --Charlotte Moore, Spectator In The Making of Home, historian Judith Flanders furnishes fascinating detail on how houses have been made to feel like "home" over 500 years. --Wall Street Journal

Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed (2003); the critically acclaimed Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2011); and, most recently, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (2012). She is a frequent contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement. Currently a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, she lives in London.