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"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, 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. Without a stable home, without a steady income, without family support - how do you survive? In Skint Estate, Cash has found her voice - loud, raw and cutting. This is a book born straight from life lived in Britain below the poverty line - a brutal landscape savaged by universal credit, zero-hours contracts, rising rents and public service funding cuts. Told with a dark lick of humour and two-fingers up to the establishment, Cash takes us on her isolated journey from council house childhood to single motherhood, working multiple jobs yet relying on food banks and temporary accommodation, all while skewering stereotypes of what it means to be working class. Despite being beaten down from all angles, Cash clings to the important things - love for her daughter, community and friendships - and has woven together a highly charged, hilarious and guttural cry for change. 'This is a raw, painful, funny book. And it rings true. Cash Carraway is a real writer, who shares her extraordinary story with a developing sense of politics. Her writing bursts with energy, wit and anger - it might be too strong for the Radio4 Book of the Week, but it is essential reading' - Ken Loach 'What an astonishingly brilliant memoir. I'm speechless. So beautifully, passionately written without a shred of self-pity and brim full of this unbreakable mother daughter Love at the heart of it all... Raw, gut-wrenching and immensely moving' - Ruth Jones 'Cash is the definition of edgy, a truly distinctive voice' - Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of We Need to Talk about Kevin 'Skint Estate will stay with me forever. Cash's brutal honesty will leave you wanting to make a change, stand up and be heard. A must read, and when you've read it pass it on' - Vicky McClure 'A fascinating, shocking look at poverty and motherhood' - Billie Piper 'Cash Carraway's unique voice, filled in equal measure with rage and inspiration, tells a story of hope amongst state violence. Brilliant and compelling' - Anna Minton, author of Big Capital and Ground Control 'Give s powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' - Tim Adams, Observer New Review 'New voice of a generation' - Janice Turner, The Times Magazine
Biografía del autor
Cash Carraway is a playwright, author and spoken word artist from Penge, south-east London.
Her sell-out one-woman spoken word show REFUGE WOMAN, about government cuts to domestic violence services, won 'Editorial Innovation of the Year' at the Drum Online Media Awards in 2019, was shortlisted for 'Innovation of the Year' at the 2018 British Journalism Awards and toured the UK in collaboration with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Battersea Arts Centre.
SKINT ESTATE, her memoir about life in the gutter, is her first book.
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- VerlagEbury Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2019
- ISBN 10 1529103371
- ISBN 13 9781529103373
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten368
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Paperback. Zustand: USED_GOOD. Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny KATHY BURKE Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britains current fracturing OBSERVER Im a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals or so they say. After all, what else do you call a working-class single mum in temporary accommodation? Skint Estate is the darkly funny debut memoir from Cash Carraway, a scream against austerity that rises full of rage in a landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows. A voice that must be heard. Cashs brutal honesty will leave you wanting to make a change, stand up and be heard. A must-read VICKY McCLURE Extraordinary . Bursts with energy, wit and anger KEN LOACH The new voice of a generation THE TIMES Astonishingly brilliant Raw, gut-wrenching and immensely moving RUTH JONES A fascinating, shocking look at poverty and motherhood BILLIE PIPER A howl of rage . I loved it THE IRISH TIMES The definition of edgy LIONEL SHRIVER. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Artikel-Nr. GOR010107496
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