Brilliant and compelling * Anna Minton * This is a raw, painful, funny book. * Morning Star * Cash Carraway's unique voice, filled in equal measure with rage and inspiration, tells a story of hope amongst state violence. Skint Estate is a full-throttle dispatch from the front line of the war against the poor. You have to read it * Stylist * Visceral, high-octane prose, a cocktail of Irvine Welsh and Charles Bukowski with a splash of feminist polemic. I loved it' THE IRISH TIMES 'The definition of edgy' LIONEL SHRIVERĮxplosive, funny and insightful. Raw, gut-wrenching and immensely moving' RUTH JONES 'A fascinating, shocking look at poverty and motherhood' BILLIE PIPER 'A howl of rage. Bursts with energy, wit and anger' KEN LOACH 'The new voice of a generation' THE TIMES 'Astonishingly brilliant. A must-read' VICKY McCLURE 'Extraordinary. 'Cash's brutal honesty will leave you wanting to make a change, stand up and be heard. After all, what else do you call a working-class single mum in temporary accommodation? Skint Estate is the darkly funny debut memoir from Cash Carraway, a scream against austerity that rises full of rage in a landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows. 'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE 'Give 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.
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