TY - BOOK AU - Carraway, Cash, TI - Skint Estate: a memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival SN - 9781529103373 AV - DA591.C357 A3 2019 U1 - 941.086092 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London, United Kingdom : PB - Ebury Press, KW - Carraway, Cash, KW - Single mothers KW - England KW - Biography KW - Poor women KW - Autobiographies KW - fast KW - Biographies N1 - Survival -- Motherhood -- Poverty N2 - 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 ER -