' Cash Carraway's unique voice, filled in equal measure with rage and inspiration, tells a story of hope amongst state violence.

A must read, and when you've read it pass it on' – Vicky McClure Cash's brutal honesty will leave you wanting to make a change, stand up and be heard. ' Skint Estate will stay with me forever. ‘Cash is the definition of edgy, a truly distinctive voice’ – Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of We Need to Talk about Kevin a funny, outrageous, defiant, visceral book' – Janice Turner, The Times Magazine Raw, gut-wrenching and immensely moving' - Ruth Jones

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. Told with a dark lick of humour and two-fingers up to the establishment, Cash takes us on her isolated journey from council house childhood to single motherhood, working multiple jobs yet relying on food banks and temporary accommodation, all while skewering stereotypes of what it means to be working class.ĭespite being beaten down from all angles, Cash clings to the important things – love for her daughter, community and friendships – and has woven together a highly charged, hilarious and guttural cry for change. This is a book born straight from life lived in Britain below the poverty line – a brutal landscape savaged by universal credit, zero-hours contracts, rising rents and public service funding cuts. In Skint Estate, Cash has found her voice – loud, raw and cutting. Without a stable home, without a steady income, without family support – how do you survive? What had changed? The vulnerable were still at the bottom of the heap, unheard. Years later, she watched Grenfell burn from a women’s refuge around the corner. Skint Estate is the hard-hitting, blunt, dignified and brutally revealing debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence in austerity Britain – set against a grim landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows – skilfully woven into a manifesto for change.Īlone, pregnant and living in a women’s refuge, Cash Carraway couldn’t vote in the 2010 general election that ushered austerity into Britain.

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

Skint Estate by Cash Carraway