A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following 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