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‘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? 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. 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
