Deborah Levy is approaching sixty, the children have flown the nest, and the divorce is behind her. She uses her newfound freedom to leave her dilapidated flat in London and travel the world. To New York to clean out her late stepmother's apartment, to a literature festival in Mumbai, on a writing retreat in Paris and trips to Berlin and Greece.

In the meantime, she dreams of her next home - a magnificent old house with curved staircases, vaulted ceilings and a pomegranate tree in the garden - and thinks sharply and full of humor about all the notions we attach to the idea of ​​a home, about our understanding of property and possessions, and our way of estimating the value of a woman's intellectual and personal life.

The trilogy became an international phenomenon, praised for its elegant, genre-breaking style and called a modern coming-of-middle-age . Levy herself calls it a 'living autobiography', written while life rages around her and not in the clear light of reflection.

"A masterpiece and the best I've read in years. Levy combined memoir and cultural criticism, philosophy and travel diary in a writing that feels fluffy and deeply stimulating to read. She is superb at writing about female existence in an intelligent and unartistic way.'' - Information

"Wonderful book ... just to move into. Deborah Levy's clever and funny "Real Estate" is memoir of the finest kind." ★★★★★ – Kristeligt Dagblad

"It is like an aromatic elixir that awakens the senses, the mind and the will to open up to life ... Levy writes vividly, humorously, charmingly and thoughtfully about belonging to a place without the place belonging to one." ★★ ★★★ – Jyllands-Posten

»Deborah Levy's author I am a charming underdog ... Not many authors write about money, and certainly not about their personal finances, but here it makes sense, because Deborah Levy tries to identify the contrast between the stories we tell about our lives and how life actually unfolds and feels.'' - Weekendavisen