Living Autobiography 3 Books Collection Set by Deborah Levy - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
Things I Don't Want to Know
The Cost of Living
Real Estate

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin

Overview
Discover the acclaimed Living Autobiography trilogy from Booker Prize-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, collected in one brand-new paperback set. Across three sharply observed volumes, Levy turns her own life into a lens for writing, womanhood, work, and home. Things I Don't Want to Know opens with a response to Orwell's Why I Write, The Cost of Living probes the price of independence, and Real Estate closes with a meditation on ownership. Together they form one of literature's most inventive memoir projects.

About the Books
Deborah Levy's Living Autobiography trilogy reinvents the memoir form, blending personal history, philosophy, and cultural criticism into three compact, propulsive books. Things I Don't Want to Know, first published in 2013 and reissued in this Penguin paperback edition, takes George Orwell's essay "Why I Write" as its jumping-off point, tracing Levy's childhood in South Africa and her early years as a writer in Britain to ask what it costs a woman to claim a creative life. The Cost of Living picks up the story in midlife, after the end of a marriage, as Levy rebuilds a home and an identity from a rented flat and an electric bike, examining the invisible domestic labor that so often goes unseen. Real Estate, the trilogy's final volume, turns a fantasy of buying a house into a wry, searching inquiry about property, autonomy, and what it truly means to belong somewhere. Each book stands alone, yet read together they trace a single, continuous voice moving through decades of change with clarity and wit. Levy's prose is spare but never cold, funny but never glib, and the three books have been championed by critics for reinventing what memoir can do. This paperback set brings all three together for readers discovering Levy's nonfiction for the first time.

Key Benefits

• Complete 3-book Living Autobiography trilogy, brand-new paperback
• By Booker Prize- and Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Deborah Levy
• Spans writing, womanhood, domestic labor, and the meaning of home
• Compact volumes ideal for commutes or book clubs
• A thoughtful gift for memoir readers
• A strong addition to any nonfiction shelf

Book-by-Book Guide
Things I Don't Want to Know — Levy answers Orwell's "Why I Write" with her own account of becoming a writer, moving between childhood in South Africa and early adulthood in London.
The Cost of Living — Levy examines rebuilding a home and identity in midlife after her marriage ends, weighing the domestic labor behind a woman's independence.
Real Estate — The closing volume turns a daydream about buying a house into a candid meditation on property and belonging.

About the Author
Deborah Levy is a British author of novels, plays, and nonfiction, including Hot Milk, Swimming Home, and August Blue alongside the Living Autobiography trilogy collected here. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, and won the Prix Femina Étranger. Levy has also written for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, admired for spare, incisive prose.

Why You'll Love This Collection
Sharp, funny, and quietly radical, this trilogy rewards readers who love memoir that thinks as hard as it feels. It's an ideal gift for book clubs, a thoughtful birthday present for the literary reader in your life, a stocking stuffer for the holiday season, or a satisfying pick for a summer reading list.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.