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. It's a luxury to afford morals and if you're Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survive.įrom the creator of HBO and BBC's Rain Dogs, 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.
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The hat is described as having a little bit of rust at the crown and the "roll-up brim" as also being rush, the rest seafoam. My other problem with the book is that everything made, all the yarn and knitwear, is some combination of seafoam or turquoise and rust. I hadn't heard of sweeps before but it's a very cool concept. If you know nothing about yarn and how it's made or knitting, you'll learn a lot and as far as I know from my moderate experience it was accurate. Yes, that can happen when you're fifteen years apart but I think it's rare. I think for a relationship to be successful, you need to be in the same place in life. Yes, those relationships can work and be healthy, but I've seen so many that aren't healthy at all, where the people aren't equal, the older person is clearly in control, the younger person doesn't have time to enjoy being young or the older person acts younger than their age. I just hate the romanticizing of relationships with significant age differences in this genre. At least the younger guy wasn't still in his teens. The age difference isn't even acknowledged in the book. The story would have worked fine if he'd been even 30. The other guy is in his mid-twenties, which is completely unnecessary. The older guy is in his late thirties which is perfect. The one thing that did irritate me is that there is a significant age difference and there is absolutly no reason for it. There wasn't much of a plot, just the romance, but that was okay. I loved all the knitting stuff, and the wooing with knitted garments. She's won the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence twice, is a three time RITA Award finalist, and (writing as Linda Fallon) winner of the 2004 Rita for paranormal romance. She was nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Innovative Historical Romance, and her book Someone's Been Sleeping In My Bed was nominated in their Best Historical Love and Laughter category for 1996. Linda's September 1996 time-travel, Desperado's Gold was the winner of the Colorado Award of Excellence in the paranormal division. Ever since then she has been writing novels. Linda Winstead Jones wrote her first novel in 1994 called Guardian Angel which was written on her kitchen table. It took her a while before she sat down to write her first book. Jones was always a full time wife and mother for many years, as well as a fast-food restaurant manager, a compulsive taker of classes, a real estate saleswoman, and a picture framer with her own business. It even came in between her yoga and French classes or even when she was decorating a cake or cooking Chinese food. 098869-80 WINSTEAD GEORGIA LINDA LTJG301 098202-62 WINSTEAD HERBERT WEST. The very first time Linda figured out that she was interested in writing was when she took a creative writing class. JOHN STEPHEN LTJG 122 098368-40 WIND OM BOBBY GLYNN LCDR 20920276-28 WIND. Jones' leisure activities are retail therapy, hiking, and reading had always loved to read than loved writing. She lives in Alabama with her husband whom she has been married to for 36 years and their youngest son. Jones has published many of her novels under various pseudonyms including Linda Jones, Linda Fallon and Linda Devlin. Connections were made for Mason and Julia, plus some new background for Marcus.Įven more fascinating is watching Akalya, aka Kallie, develop. Although it's classed as science fiction because it's time travel, the plot has been more like a Mystery and we got some revelations this time. I also love the way this series is developing. 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