The Cost of Living

In this dazzling memoir, Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism and profoundly wisdom. Reflecting on the period when she wrote the Man Booker-shortlisted Hot Milk- when her mother was dying, her daughters leaving home, her marriage was coming to an end -she is characteristically eloquent on the social expectations and surreal realities of daily life. The second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood.