The Cost of Living
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2026
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4059-8876-6 (ISBN)
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4059-8876-6 (ISBN)
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A witty and characterful novel about the aftermath of a party thrown by singletons Marianne, a freelance typist in her mid-thirties and twenty-six year old Alexandra, a freelance portrait painter, who live in the same apartment building and have decided it's time to meet some men . . .
With a foreword by Jane Fallon
‘You’re always so cynical. It doesn’t do. It makes men feel inferior.’
‘Quite a few of them are . . .’
Idealistic Alexandra is throwing a party to meet a more glamorous crowd. Marianne, more sardonic, worries it’ll be the usual sort.
The party is in Alexandra’s attic flat. Marianne will contribute a few bottles of red optimistically labelled Bordeaux. Can it be judged a success? There’s Donald the bus conductor with high-brow dreams, nervous bespectacled Bernhardt and Marius the ghostwriter. Not to mention a brace of Peters. It’s left to sexy, young Pisa and riotous, middle-aged Mummy (neither invited) to steal the show.
Yet, after the party both Marianne and Alexandra find themselves caught in unexpected – sometimes far from romantic – relationships. Meeting people, it turns out, has the most peculiar consequences.
Is that really the cost of living?
Praise for Kathleen Farrell:
‘Genuine wit, an acute feminine intelligence and a natural distinction of style’ Spectator
‘A distinctive voice, and she provided her readers with subtle pleasures’ Guardian
A witty and characterful novel about the aftermath of a party thrown by singletons Marianne, a freelance typist in her mid-thirties and twenty-six year old Alexandra, a freelance portrait painter, who live in the same apartment building and have decided it's time to meet some men . . .
With a foreword by Jane Fallon
‘You’re always so cynical. It doesn’t do. It makes men feel inferior.’
‘Quite a few of them are . . .’
Idealistic Alexandra is throwing a party to meet a more glamorous crowd. Marianne, more sardonic, worries it’ll be the usual sort.
The party is in Alexandra’s attic flat. Marianne will contribute a few bottles of red optimistically labelled Bordeaux. Can it be judged a success? There’s Donald the bus conductor with high-brow dreams, nervous bespectacled Bernhardt and Marius the ghostwriter. Not to mention a brace of Peters. It’s left to sexy, young Pisa and riotous, middle-aged Mummy (neither invited) to steal the show.
Yet, after the party both Marianne and Alexandra find themselves caught in unexpected – sometimes far from romantic – relationships. Meeting people, it turns out, has the most peculiar consequences.
Is that really the cost of living?
Praise for Kathleen Farrell:
‘Genuine wit, an acute feminine intelligence and a natural distinction of style’ Spectator
‘A distinctive voice, and she provided her readers with subtle pleasures’ Guardian
Kathleen Farrell was born in 1912 into a well-off London family. During the Second World War she served as assistant to the secretary-general of the Labour Party, and after the war’s end, she founded a literary agency. In 1942 she wrote a ghost story with autobiographical elements, but it was in the 1950s that she embarked on a series of novels entertainingly skewering contemporary life and mores. Physically tiny, Farrell nevertheless was determined and outgoing, having a wide circle of literary friends, acquaintances and even one enemy (she belonged to ‘The Lady Novelists' Anti-Elizabeth League’, whose members were united in their disdain for fellow novelist Elizabeth Taylor). She died in 1999.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Mermaid Collection |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4059-8876-2 / 1405988762 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4059-8876-6 / 9781405988766 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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