![]() ![]() And yet behind our normal existence, my parents were haunted by generational violence and addictions, and too traumatised to break the cycle of abuse. 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. We were working class but not living in poverty. ![]() ![]() I grew up in one of south-east London’s most deprived areas, but my family didn’t fit into the media’s portrayal of a feckless working class my dad held down two low-paid jobs and our house was show-home clean, thanks to my mum’s severe OCD. ‘In the UK, 14.2m people live in poverty. Its a luxury to afford morals and if youre Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive. This spring saw the release of Kerry Hudson’s moving memoir Lowborn, and Common People by Kit De Waal featuring established and rising voices taking charge of their working-class narratives. As a working-class writer, I wanted to deliver my own story in my book Skint Estate. ![]() My intention was to challenge stereotypical media portrayals of scroungers, who were stigmatised, or victims who were sympathised. ‘In the numb aftermath of a suicide attempt, which came in the shadow of homelessness and a food bank winter, I wrote down my experiences of a decade lost to austerity. ![]()
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