LIVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

What does it mean to be free - as an artist a woman a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom? In this dazzling memoir br>Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour pragmatism and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on the period when she wrote the man Booker Prize-shortlisted hot milk - when her mother was dying her daughters were leaving home her marriage was coming to an end - she is Y eloquent on the social expectations and surreal realities of daily life. And expanding far beyond these bounds she describes a uniquely Frank wise and thrilling manifesto for female experience: embracing the exhilarating terror of freedom seeking to understand what that freedom could mean and how it might feel.