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The Cost of Living

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The Cost of Living

By: Deborah Levy
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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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.

©2018 Deborah Levy (P)2018 Penguin Audio Essays Gender Studies Grief & Loss Personal Development Relationships Social Sciences Nonfiction
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I couldn’t stop listening to this audiobook. Deborah Levy reminds me of Karl Ove Knausgaard in her beautiful prose about her life experiences. I loved it.

Excellent writing a writer gets to through introspection

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I love the way this writer takes her time to tell her story: nothing is forced, yet there’s a shaping, forming of life events so visual; it’s all very relatable- the ups and downs of marriage, raising children alone (female) against societal expectations and/whilst writing. I love the way she questions … we become illuminated with her as she confirms this or that or makes new discoveries. Above all, I love her humor and can relate with her sense of displacement, myself being born and raised in London to Greek Cypriot parents, then moving to Cyprus later on … the mind often swooning between both lands, as in: where do I belong? This book is about many things: love, loss, motherhood, exile, relationships, culture and more. I highly recommend it!

The voice … honest, exploratory and simply told.

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