{"product_id":"the-cost-of-living-kathleen-dnsc-aprn-acnp-ccns-ccrn-farrell-9781405988766","title":"The Cost of Living","description":"Rediscover the brilliance of The Cost of Living in the Mermaid Collection - classic books by popular pioneering female authors republished to delight new generations of readers. 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","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51339325702432,"sku":"9781405988766","price":11.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781405988766_2449173.jpg?v=1773362141","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-cost-of-living-kathleen-dnsc-aprn-acnp-ccns-ccrn-farrell-9781405988766","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}