LIVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2: 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 _________________________________ 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. _________________________________ 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