Skint Estate
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  • Published: 12 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781529103380
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99
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Skint Estate

A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival

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20 Jun 2019
Audiobook
18 Jul 2019
Paperback
12 Mar 2020
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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***ing funny' KATHY BURKE

'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
  • Published: 12 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781529103380
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Cash Carraway

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.

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Praise for Skint Estate

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

Skint Estate will stay with me forever. Cash's brutal honesty will leave you wanting to make a change, stand up and be heard. A must read, and when you've read it pass it on.

Vicky McClure

Visceral and powerful ... The writing is stark, jagged and at times unexpectedly hilarious.

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