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

A Guardian Best Publication of the 21st Century

‘Lifestyle falls apart. We try to get a hold. We try to hold it together. And then we recognize that we don’t need to hold it jointly…’

Picking right up where Things I Don’t Want to Know remaining off, this brief, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement, and growing renewed from your ashes of a former life. Faced with the limitations of typical living, she dismantles her lifestyle, expands it and puts it back together in a new shape. Writing as brilliantly as ever about mothers and daughters, on the subject of social stresses and the female knowledge, Deborah Levy confronts a world not made to accommodate difficult females and ultimately remakes herself in her very own image.