01-12-2019, 01:04 PM
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Type : epub |
Size : 1.43 MB |
English |
Descirption: "Everyone has their price. It's just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid."
Single mum. 'Stain on society'. Caught in a poverty trap.
It's a luxury to afford morals and if you're Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive.
Skint Estate is the hard-hitting, blunt, dignified and brutally revealing debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence in austerity Britain - set against a grim landscape of sink estates, security officer cells, refuges and peepsho - skilfully woven into a manifesto for change.
Alone, pregnant and living in a women's refuge, Cash Carraway couldn't vote in the 2010 general election that ushered austerity into Britain. Her voice had been silenced. Years later, she watched Grenfell burn from a women's refuge around the corner. What had changed? The vulnerable were still at the bottom of the heap, unheard. Without a stable home, without a steady income, without...