Cash Carraway’s Skint Estate (Ebury Press, £14.99; Tablet price £13.49) begins with her taking multiple (stolen) pregnancy tests over a faeces-strewn train toilet, her fare-dodging hideout. It’s a gritty tale of a single mother’s struggle to provide for her ill-conceived, but much-wanted, daughter, Biddy. From working, heavily pregnant, in a Soho peep show, to pay rent on a damp, rodent-infested flat, to securing an Instagrammable house by pretending to be the Boden-clad wife of a rich but abusive gay man, Cash’s story is told with humour and dignity.
14 November 2019, The Tablet
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