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. In Skint Estate, Cash has found her voice - loud, raw and cutting. Without a stable home, without a steady income, without family support - how do you survive? What had changed? The vulnerable were still at the bottom of the heap, unheard. Years later, she watched Grenfell burn from a women’s refuge around the corner. 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.Īlone, pregnant and living in a women’s refuge, Cash Carraway couldn’t vote in the 2010 general election that ushered austerity into Britain. It’s a luxury to afford morals, and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive. Penguin presents the audio edition of Skint Estate, written and read by Cash Carraway.
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