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