# The Cost of Living

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- Book: [The Cost of Living](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-levy/the-cost-of-living) ([The Cost of Living.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-levy/the-cost-of-living.md))
- Authors: [Deborah Levy](https://www.bookquiver.com/deborah-levy)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-757-6
- Published: 2018-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'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.