{"product_id":"9780241977569","title":"The Cost of Living : Living Autobiography 2","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Deborah Levy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutobiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 February 2019 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Living Autobiography' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 197 x 11mm | 152g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e '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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e We try to get a grip and hold it together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64839149551965,"sku":"9780241977569","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780241977569.jpg?v=1780057461","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780241977569","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}