# The Cost of Living

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- Book: [The Cost of Living](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathleen-farrell/the-cost-of-living) ([The Cost of Living.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathleen-farrell/the-cost-of-living.md))
- Authors: [Kathleen Farrell](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathleen-farrell)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0598-877-3
- Published: 2026-03-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Idealistic Alexandra is throwing a party to meet a more glamorous crowd. Marianne, more sardonic, worries it’ll be the usual sort. The party is in Alexandra’s attic flat. Marianne will contribute a few bottles of red optimistically labelled Bordeaux. Can it be judged a success? There’s Donald the bus conductor with high-brow dreams, nervous bespectacled Bernhardt and Marius the ghostwriter. Not to mention a brace of Peters. It’s left to sexy, young Pisa and riotous, middle-aged Mummy (neither invited) to steal the show. Yet, after the party both Marianne and Alexandra find themselves caught in unexpected – sometimes far from romantic – relationships. Meeting people, it turns out, has the most peculiar consequences. Is that really the cost of living?