Skint Estate: Notes from the Poverty Line

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‘Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny’ KATHY BURKE’Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain’s current fracturing’ OBSERVERI’m 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?The darkly funny debut memoir from the creator of HBO and BBC’s Rain Dogs, Skint Estate is 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.’Cash’s 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

Additional information

Weight 0.253 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

368

Publisher

Year Published

2020-3-12

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

152910338X

About The Author

Cash Carraway is an award-winning playwright, author and screenwriter from London.In 2018 she was nominated for a British Journalism Award and won ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the 2019 Drum Online Media Awards. Skint Estate is her first book.

Review Quote

Explosive, funny and insightful … You have to read it

Other text

Visceral, high-octane prose, a cocktail of Irvine Welsh and Charles Bukowski with a splash of feminist polemic … Skint Estate is a full-throttle dispatch from the front line of the war against the poor.