![]() ![]() ![]() She also earns extra income as, in turn, a mystery shopper, a low-level drug dealer, a cleaner and by selling her human-interest stories to the Daily Mail. ![]() When she falls pregnant, she switches to a job as a peep-show model - as one of her better-paid jobs, it allows her to save up three months’ rental deposit on a flat.Īfter the birth of her daughter, she has a landline fitted so that “in lieu of maternity leave” she can work as a telephone clairvoyant. ![]() Cash Carraway’s memoir of her life as a single mother on the margins of austerity Britain is touching and, surprisingly, given its subject matter, very funny too.Įndlessly resourceful, Carraway works as a stripper in an upmarket West End club. OPEN Skint Estate on almost any page and you are likely to encounter shit, semen or blood.įrom page one, where we find the narrator hiding in a train toilet to avoid buying a ticket and discovering that her jeans are smeared in “someone else’s shit” from the toilet pan, to the smell of stale semen at the peep show where she works, to a blood-drenched account of how she “lost her vagina” during a botched childbirth, this is a book soaked in bodily fluids.īeneath the barrage of gutsy, in-your-face swagger, there is a vulnerability. ![]()
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