The Cost of Living

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020

Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don''t Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy''s essential three-part ''Living Autobiography''.

''I can''t think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman'' Observer

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''Life falls apart.

We try to get a grip and hold it together.

And then we realise we don''t want to hold it together . . .''

The final instalment in Deborah Levy''s critically acclaimed ''Living Autobiography'', Real Estate, is available now.

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''I just haven''t stopped reading it . . . it talks so beautifully about being a woman'' Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4''s Desert Island Discs

''It is the story of every woman throughout history who has expended her love and labour on making a home that turns out to serve the needs of everyone except herself. Wonderful'' Guardian

''Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy''s every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . a brilliant writer'' Daily Telegraph

''A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, "What is a woman for? What should a woman be?"'' Tatler

''Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights'' Financial Times