Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival Audiobook (Free)

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“Everyone offers their cost. It’s not always monetary. Mine is definitely though. 20 quid.”

Solitary mum. ‘Stain on culture’. Caught inside a poverty trap.

It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you choose to do what you may to survive.

Skint Estate may be the hard-hitting, blunt, dignified and brutally uncovering debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and assault in austerity Britain – place against a grim landscape of kitchen sink estates, police cells, refuges and about Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and success peepshows – skilfully woven right into a manifesto for modification.

Alone, pregnant and living in a women’s refuge, Cash Carraway couldn’t vote in the 2010 general election that ushered austerity into Britain. Her tone of voice had been silenced. Years later on, she watched Grenfell burn off from a women’s refuge around the corner. What had changed? The vulnerable had been still at the bottom of the heap, unheard. Without a steady home, without a regular income, without family members support – how do you survive?

In Skint Property, Money has found her tone of voice – loud, uncooked and cutting. That is a book born straight from life resided in Britain below the poverty collection – a brutal panorama savaged by general credit, zero-hours contracts, increasing rents and open public service funding slashes. Told with a dark lick of humour and two-fingers up to the establishment, Cash takes us on her behalf isolated trip from council home childhood to solitary motherhood, functioning multiple jobs however relying on food banks and short-term lodging, all while skewering stereotypes of what it means to be working class.

Despite being beaten down from all angles, Cash clings towards the considerations – love for her child, community and friendships – and has woven jointly a highly charged, hilarious and guttural cry for switch.

‘Cash may be the description of edgy, a distinctive tone of voice’ – Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of We Need to Talk about Kevin