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No Fixed Abode

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What to expect

‘A sensitive exposé that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell’ – Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate

‘Urgent, gripping and devastating’ – The Secret Barrister

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.

Critics Review

  • A conscience-pricking look at the reality of life on Britain’s streets . . . No Fixed Abode couldn’t be more illuminating, timely and urgent.

    Sunday Times

  • Urgent, gripping and devastating

    The Secret Barrister

  • Compelling, compassionate and hard-hitting . . . It tells a very important story in a human way and in doing so motivates the reader to demand change. It is a campaigning book of the very highest order

    Irish Times

  • An urgent, searing examination of our homelessness crisis . . . a much-needed antidote to the apathy that can often surround homelessness. It is movingly told, passionately argued and totally engrossing

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  • A sensitive exposé that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell.

    Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate

  • A story that desperately needed to be told

    Michael Sheen

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