No Fixed Abode

McClenaghan is an award-winning journalist who deserves to win more awards for this expose, which also comes with suggestions for how we can we can all help alleviate a parlous national situation. -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller * McClenaghan goes where few have gone before. Telling rich and varied personal stories of the path to homelessness while keeping a steady gaze on the societal structures and government policies that make homelessness part of the UK's socio-economic fabric. It's hard to celebrate homelessness, but No Fixed Abode deserves an ovation. -- Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing (2014-2020) A devastating and powerful read about the lives and deaths of the homeless people behind the news headlines. Maeve's impeccable, dogged research gives a voice to those who are not usually given one, and asks tough questions of the authorities which failed them. The stories of Tony, Jayne, Andrew and many others will stay with me. A vitally important book that shines a light on one of the most shameful legacies of a country that is one of the richest in the world, yet has so many vulnerable people falling through the cracks. -- Jane Bradley, UK Investigative Correspondent for the <i>New York Times</i> The story this book tells, the work of Maeve and the Dying Homeless project, the lives and, most importantly, the deaths it contains, matter. These souls may have felt, at times, invisible but they were not. They mattered. And, as Maeve writes in her lockdown preface, this pandemic has taught us that the invisible catches up with us . This is a story that desperately needed to be told and thank God for Maeve and her colleagues for telling it. -- Michael Sheen A vital and entirely original book that both gathers missing numbers and humanises the people who comprise them. Moving and insightful, this is a masterclass in the best of investigative journalism. -- Jenny Kleeman, author of <i>Sex Robots & Vegan Meat</i> A sensitive expose that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell. -- Cash Carraway, author of <i>Skint Estate</i>