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. It's a luxury to afford morals and if you're Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive.įrom the creator of HBO and BBC's Rain Dogs, 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. 'A fascinating, shocking look at poverty and motherhood' BILLIE PIPER Raw, gut-wrenching and immensely moving' RUTH JONES 'The new voice of a generation' THE TIMES Bursts with energy, wit and anger' KEN LOACH
'Cash's brutal honesty will leave you wanting to make a change, stand up and be heard. 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. After all, what else do you call a working-class single mum in temporary accommodation? I'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals - or so they say. 'Give powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVER 'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE
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