Skint Estate

Notes from the Poverty Line

Cash Carraway

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Ebury Press
12 March 2020

Memoirs; Poverty & unemployment

A raw, candid and darkly funny memoir from a stunning new voice on Britain's poverty line, for fans of Poverty Safari, Prozac Nation, I Daniel Blake and Chavs.

'Brilliant, horrifying and really f
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'Give s

powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVER

I'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

By: Cash Carraway
Imprint: Ebury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 253g
ISBN: 9781529103380
ISBN 10: 152910338X
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 12 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Skint Estate: Notes from the Poverty Line

Explosive, funny and insightful ... You have to read it * Stylist * 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. * Morning Star * 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 * 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 *