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Discover your new favourite forgotten female classics with the Mermaid collection – No 6- Kathleen Farrell’s The Cost of Living with a foreword by Jane Fallon
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?
ISBN: 9781405988766
Publication date: 23/06/2026
Price: $32.99
RRP: $32.99
Format: Paperback
Temporarily out of stock
Publishing status: Due June
Author: Farrell, Kathleen, DNSc, APRN, ACNP, CCNS, CCRN
Series: Mermaid Collection
Imprint: Michael Joseph
