A stunning early novel from Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, now a Penguin Essential.
Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels- Beautiful Mutants,
Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home,
Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted
twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Man Booker Prize. Her
short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the
International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on
BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic
case studies, Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The
Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is
collected in Levy- Plays 1. Her work is widely translated.
Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is
also the author of a formally innovative and emotionally daring
trilogy of memoirs, a living autobiography on writing, gender
politics and philosophy. The first two volumes, Things I Don't Want
to Know and The Cost of Living, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020.
The final volume, Real Estate, will be published in Spring 2021.
One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage
*New Statesman*
Levy is a brilliant writer
*Telegraph*
An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters
wield
*Sunday Times*
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