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‘A sensitive exposé that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell’ – Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate
‘Urgent, gripping and devastating’ – The Secret Barrister
This book will finally give a face and a voice to those we so easily forget in our society. It will tell the highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real people struggling in a crumbling system. By telling their stories, we will come to know these people; to know their hopes and fears, their complexities and their contradictions. We will learn a little more about human relationships, in all their messiness. And we’ll learn how, with just a little too much misfortune, any of us could find ourselves homeless, even become one of the hundreds of people dying on Britain’s streets.
As the number of rough sleepers skyrockets across the UK, No Fixed Abode by Maeve McClenaghan will also bring to light many of the ad-hoc projects attempting to address the problem. You will meet some of the courageous people who dedicate their lives to saving the forgotten of our society and see that the smallest act of kindness or affection can save a life.
This is a timely and important book encompassing wider themes of inequality and austerity measures; through the prism of homelessness, it offers a true picture of Britain today – and shows how terrifyingly close to breaking point we really are.
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Maeve McClenaghan is an award-winning investigative journalist at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and founder of the popular, critically-acclaimed podcast, The Tip Off. She has led investigations for BBC radio, the Guardian and Buzzfeed UK. Maeve has won the Bar Council’s Legal Reporting Award, the innovation awards at the British Journalism Awards and the European Press Prize. She has also been a finalist for four Amnesty Media Awards, the Paul Foot Award and the Orwell Prize in 2016 and 2018. No Fixed Abode is her first book.
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More than thirty people become homeless in Britain every day. Worse still, between October 2017 and March 2019, more than 800 people died while homeless. This is a national scandal. Yet the issue is rarely discussed and poorly understood.
Award-winning journalist Maeve McClenaghan has spent years investigating this crisis. She has travelled from Glasgow to Brighton to hear the heartrending stories of people struggling to survive in a crumbling system and to meet some of the courageous people who dedicate their lives to saving them.
No Fixed Abode gives a face and a voice to those whom our society chooses to ignore: a man who froze to death in the garden of the home he used to own, a woman driven to the streets by the death of her son, a campaigner who turned a bus he bought on eBay into a portable shelter. By reading their stories you will come to understand how, with just a little too much misfortune, anyone could find themselves homeless. More importantly, you will see how the smallest act of kindness can save a life.
This groundbreaking book offers the first comprehensive picture of homelessness in Britain today. It will challenge your assumptions, deepen your understanding and show you that this devastating problem is not impossible to solve.
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