The Cost of Living
Living Autobiography 2
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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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By:
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Deborah Levy
About this listen
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy.
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...'
Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement, and emerging renewed from the ashes of a former life. Faced with the restrictions of conventional living, she dismantles her life, expands it and puts it back together in a new shape. Writing as brilliantly as ever about mothers and daughters, about social pressures and the female experience, Deborah Levy confronts a world not designed to accommodate difficult women and ultimately remakes herself in her own image.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-05-2023
Highly recommended
“It requires skill, time, dedication and empathy to create a home that everyone enjoys and that functions well. Above all else, it is an act of immense generosity to be the architect of everyone else's well-being.”
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- Anonymous User
- 18-04-2022
Such a short book, so much to discover
Plan to listen to again very soon, as there is so much in this book to take in.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-2023
Beautiful book about independence and loneliness
Deborah levy is a genius, her writing is simple but extremely emotional
Had such a good time reading
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- Anonymous User
- 01-09-2023
Considered and touching
I so enjoyed this story that weaves and dips from humour and pathos into larger thoughts and shared experience.
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