A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020 Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don’t Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy’s essential three-part ‚Living Autobiography‘. ‚I can’t think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman‘ Observer _________________________________ ‚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 . . .‘ The final instalment in Deborah Levy’s critically acclaimed ‚Living Autobiography‘, Real Estate, is available now. _________________________________ ‚I just haven’t stopped reading it . . . it talks so beautifully about being a woman‘ Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs ‚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‘ Guardian ‚Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy’s every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . a brilliant writer‘ Daily Telegraph ‚A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, ‚What is a woman for? What should a woman be?“ Tatler ‚Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights‘ Financial Times
ISBN: 978-0-241-97756-9
