How to live well
Jul 25, 2021
3 minutes
by ELEANOR DE JONG
Deborah Levy’s bittersweet trilogy has concluded in real time as it began, with the evergreen search for a “freer life” after the ongoing knocking down of the old ways.
These slim, profound memoirs, or long autobiographical essays, however you choose to read them, are a subtle quest by the British novelist, playwright and poet on how to live today. How to grow, love, eat, marry, write, bear children, grieve, cook and, eventually, hopefully, forge your own way.
In London, where her family settle after leaving apartheid-era South Africa, Levy
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