- Published: 18 May 2021
- ISBN: 9780241993866
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
Real Estate
Living Autobiography 3

















- Published: 18 May 2021
- ISBN: 9780241993866
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life
Evening Standard
A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life
Evening Standard
One of those wise books where you want to underline every sentence
Good Housekeeping
One of those wise books where you want to underline every sentence
Good Housekeeping
Her reflections on domesticity, freedom and romance are so beautiful, I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry, warm and uplifting, it's a book I'll return to again and again.
Stylist
Her reflections on domesticity, freedom and romance are so beautiful, I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry, warm and uplifting, it's a book I'll return to again and again.
Stylist
The narrator of Real Estate is drily funny, irreverent, curious, even wise; she makes the reader want her for a companion . . . each of the books [in Levy's living autobiography series] bears several re-readings; together, they offer one version of how a woman might continually rewrite her own story.
The Observer
The narrator of Real Estate is drily funny, irreverent, curious, even wise; she makes the reader want her for a companion . . . each of the books [in Levy's living autobiography series] bears several re-readings; together, they offer one version of how a woman might continually rewrite her own story.
The Observer
Levy is experimenting with language in subversive ways
Literary Review
Levy is experimenting with language in subversive ways
Literary Review
This is a work about what it means to be a writer: its reinventions, isolations, self-interrogations, its shifting penury and riches, both emotional and financial. . . [Levy's living autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing.
Financial Times
This is a work about what it means to be a writer: its reinventions, isolations, self-interrogations, its shifting penury and riches, both emotional and financial. . . [Levy's living autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing.
Financial Times
Lyrical sentences come naturally, full of cadence . . . She's particularly touching on the love between mothers and daughters, and funny too . . . Real Estate is a book to dive into. Come on in, the water's lovely.
Daily Telegraph
Lyrical sentences come naturally, full of cadence . . . She's particularly touching on the love between mothers and daughters, and funny too . . . Real Estate is a book to dive into. Come on in, the water's lovely.
Daily Telegraph
Her voice - at once jokey and elliptical - is so casually intimate that it feels like catching up with an old friend . . . In three moving memoirs, Levy has perfectly fused the act of writing with the art of living.
i
Her voice - at once jokey and elliptical - is so casually intimate that it feels like catching up with an old friend . . . In three moving memoirs, Levy has perfectly fused the act of writing with the art of living.
i
Levy's intellectual energy is as frenetic as [the] dance floor, her memoirs a string of disparate pearls that entwine travelogue with philosophy and memory with literature
i
Levy's intellectual energy is as frenetic as [the] dance floor, her memoirs a string of disparate pearls that entwine travelogue with philosophy and memory with literature
i
Expect fierce prose and bold meditations on what it means to be a woman.
Red
Expect fierce prose and bold meditations on what it means to be a woman.
Red