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The third part of Deborah Levy s autobiography traces her search for a home Credit: Sheila Burnett Real Estate is the third part of the project the novelist Deborah Levy calls her “living autobiography”, in which she has freed herself from convention and found a more organic form. Traditional linear autobiography often comes at the end of a life, freighted with an expectation that hindsight has imbued it with wisdom. Levy’s living autobiography has engaging immediacy, and we are thrust right into the midst of her sturm und drang. She collages time frames and subjective memories together with philosophic musings. We live her pains and her pleasures, and to do so is a wonder, as Levy’s writing can turn any experience if not always into gold, then at least turmeric-coloured silk – like the bed sheet she takes with her to a literary festival in Mumbai, and has a tailor fashion into a dress. ....