{"product_id":"the-cost-of-living-9780241977569","title":"The Cost of Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing on from the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThings I Don''t Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, discover the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epowerful second memoir in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy''s essential three-part ''Living Autobiography''.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''I can''t think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_________________________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Life falls apart.\u003cbr\u003e We try to get a grip and hold it together.\u003cbr\u003e And then we realise we don''t want to hold it together . . .''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe final instalment in Deborah Levy''s critically acclaimed ''Living Autobiography'',\u003ci\u003e Real Estate\u003c\/i\u003e, is available now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_________________________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I just haven''t stopped reading it . . . it talks so beautifully about being a woman'' \u003c\/b\u003eBillie Piper on BBC Radio 4''s \u003ci\u003eDesert Island Discs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy''s every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . a brilliant writer''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, What is a woman for? What should a woman be?'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Levy is a most generous writer.  What is wonderful about this short, sensual, embattled memoir is that it is not only about the painful landmarks in her life - the end of a marriage , the death of a mother - \u003cb\u003eit is about what it is to be alive.  I can't think of any other writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about the liminal, the domestic, the non-event, and what it is to be a woman... \u003c\/b\u003eThis is a little book about a big subject.  It is about \u003cb\u003ehow to find a new way of living\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt 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... \u003c\/b\u003eA piece of work that is \u003cb\u003enot so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto \u003c\/b\u003efor what Levy calls 'a new way of living' in the post-familial world * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eIngenious, practical and dryly amused... \u003cb\u003eThis is a manifesto for a risky, radical kind of life\u003c\/b\u003e, out of your depth but swimming all the same * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWise, subtle and ironic, Levy is a brilliant writer... \u003c\/b\u003eEach sentence is a small masterpiece of clarity and poise. That shed should be endowed with a blue plaque\u003c\/p\u003e * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA heady, absorbing read\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThis, from Deborah Levy, is exceptional. A memoir of life, art and separation. How to write when you're broke, have no writing space, are a parent. Also: crushed chickens, electric bikes, plumbing. Out in May and an early contender for one of the books of the year * Sinead Gleeson *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoth memoir and feminist manifesto\u003c\/b\u003e, her writing focuses so sharply on what it means to be alive that she's given me much-needed clarity...\u003cb\u003eLevy subtly informs us about what it is to be a woman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Vogue *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733420552535,"sku":"9780241977569","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241977569.jpg?v=1720000023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cost-of-living-9780241977569","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}