A review by wailko
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

5.0

To speak our life as we feel it is a freedom we mostly choose not to take, but it seemed to me that the words she wanted to say were lively inside her, mysterious to herself as much as anyone else.

Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.

I was not Simone de Beauvoir, after all. No, I had got off the train at a different stop (marriage) and stepped on to a different platform (children). She was my muse but I was certainly not hers. 
All the same we had both bought a ticket (earned with our own money) for the same train. The destination was to head towards a freer life.