The Cost of Living Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy.

A Guardian Best Book from the 21st Century

‘Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We make an effort to hold it together. And we realize that we don’t want to hold it together…’

Picking right up where Things I Don’t Wish to know remaining off, this brief, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement, and growing renewed through the ashes of a former life. Confronted with the limitations of conventional living, she dismantles her life, expands it and puts it back collectively in a new shape. Writing as brilliantly simply because ever about mothers and daughters, about social stresses and the female knowledge, Deborah Levy confronts a world not made to accommodate difficult women and ultimately remakes herself in her personal image.