{"product_id":"9781405988766","title":"The Cost of Living - Kathleen DNSc APRN ACNP CCNS CCRN Farrell","description":"\u003cp\u003eRediscover 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathleen DNSc APRN ACNP CCNS CCRN Farrell","offers":[{"title":"224 pages \/ 12\/03\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56967859306871,"sku":"9781405988766","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781405988766.jpg?v=1780935028","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781405988766","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}