A sensitive expose that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell.' Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate
This book will finally give a face and a voice to
those we so easily forget in our society. It will tell the highly
personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real
people struggling in a crumbling system.
By telling their
stories, we will come to know these people; to know their hopes and
fears, their complexities and their contradictions. We will learn a
little more about human relationships, in all their messiness. And we'll
learn how, with just a little too much misfortune, any of us could find
ourselves homeless, even become one of the hundreds of people dying on
Britain's streets.
As the number of rough sleepers skyrockets
across the UK, No Fixed Abode by Maeve McClenaghan will also bring to
light many of the ad-hoc projects attempting to address the problem. You
will meet some of the courageous people who dedicate their lives to
saving the forgotten of our society and see that the smallest act of
kindness or affection can save a life. This is a timely and important
book encompassing wider themes of inequality and austerity measures;
through the prism of homelessness, it offers a true picture of Britain
today - and shows how terrifyingly close to breaking point we really
are.
No Fixed Abode : Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless - Maeve McClenaghan
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