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Carraway, Cash,

Skint Estate : a memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival / Cash Carraway. - London, United Kingdom : Ebury Press, 2019. - xxii, 339 pages ; 23 cm.

Survival -- Motherhood -- Poverty.

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, police cells, refuges and peepshows - 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.

ISBN: 9781529103373 1529103371

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB961932 bnb

Subjects--Personal Names:
Carraway, Cash,

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
2000-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Single mothers--England --Biography.
Poor women--England --Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: DA591.C357 / A3 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 941.086092