{"product_id":"the-cost-of-living","title":"The Cost of Living (Living Autobiography #2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe powerful second memoir from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'I just haven't stopped reading it . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eit talks so beautifully about being a woman' Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'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 . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. .' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraise for The Cost of Living: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNot so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto' Guardian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ea brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, \"What is a woman for? What should a woman be?\" ' Tatler \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights' Financial Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'A heady, absorbing read' Evening Standard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40327681343650,"sku":"9780241977569","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE-2025-03-04T171433.327.png?v=1741108487","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-cost-of-living","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}