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TOC 1 | The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

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Read about why our Publisher, Birgit Schmitz, selected Levy’s memoire as the first book in the TOC collection. Download the Publisher’s notes here.

Praise for The Cost of Living

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century Wonderful. Not so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto for what Levy calls "a new way of living“. Guardian I can't...

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