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Skint Estate : a memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival / Cash Carraway.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Ebury Press, 2019.Description: xxii, 339 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781529103373
  • 1529103371
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 941.086092 23
LOC classification:
  • DA591.C357 A3 2019
Contents:
Survival -- Motherhood -- Poverty.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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