Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival

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Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival

Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival

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Her story begins in 2010 when she found herself pregnant and alone in a women’s refuge shouting at David Cameron on the TV talking about fairness. This book takes you to places you do not want to go but that you need to go to understand just what other people's lives are like. No Grasses, No Nonces has a blistering Michael Socha, as Jambo, delivering a monologue filled with rage, despair and bewilderment.

While some episodes are better than others, it is a uniformly strong lineup: never dull, always vivid and never descending into mere agitprop.

Det är bara så naket och ärligt att jag gråter där jag går längs Mölndalsån, till mitt fasta jobb med bra lön, knäckebröds-låda och smör och ost i kylen. Her desperation sees her accept a room (well, a cupboard) at a seemingly kind stranger’s flat, only for him to present her with a silky nightgown to wear, and expose himself. She’s immoral and shocking and purposefully vile, and swaggerous and quite amazing really – but obviously I would say that as it’s inspired by my life!

We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work.A women’s refuge that literally crumbles around the women and their children in the weeks after Grenfell. 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. 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. Cash reminds herself of the important things; love for her daughter; community and friendship; and through this, Britain (government) need to change to protect those vulnerable in society and give them a “leg up”. The type of women that the white middle aged men on faceless social media platforms like to say things like ‘they shouldn’t have kids if they can’t afford them’ and ‘they should be sterilised for wasting my tax payers money’ you know exactly who I’m talking about.

And she’s determined to make it the government’s fault, and to blame All Men (except scruffy ones who don’t wear suits and make art, those men are allowed a small pass). 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. She can’t find her best friend, Gloria (Ronke Adékoluejo) – last spotted hungover in a telephone box – so she reluctantly goes to slippery Selby (Jack Farthing), who is recently out of prison. Though their voices are very different, in some ways each woman’s journey to writing her book – their hoped-for route out of the situations they describe – is comparable.She has escaped from her boyfriend, the father of her child, who left her with a black eye and the parting words “abort it or I’ll abort it for you”.



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