A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY The powerful second memoir from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home''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 ''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 . . .'' Praise for The Cost of Living: ''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. Not so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto'' 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 ''I can''t think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman'' Observer ''Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights'' Financial Times ''A heady, absorbing read'' Evening Standard>

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Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); Swimming Home (2011); Hot Milk (2016) and the forthcoming The Man Who Saw Everything (2019). Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012; Hot Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the Goldsmiths Prize 2016. Deborah is also the author of an acclaimed collection of short stories, Black Vodka (2013), and two 'living autobiographies', Things I Don't Want To Know and The Cost of Living. She has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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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