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  • No Fixed Abode

  • Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
  • By: Maeve McClenaghan
  • Narrated by: Maeve McClenaghan
  • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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No Fixed Abode

By: Maeve McClenaghan
Narrated by: Maeve McClenaghan
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Publisher's Summary

This audiobook 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.

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©2020 Maeve McClenaghan (P)2020 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd

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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)

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A bleeding heart’s guide to homelessness

This book is quite nauseating at times as its author, Maeve McClenaghan, moans endlessly about the plight of the homeless without acknowledging their responsibility as individuals to improve their lives. One homeless man is granted a small room in government accommodation, only to have the author complain of the plastic mattress protector and the view of a supermarket car park from the room’s window. While homelessness is a serious social issue, McClenaghan’s constantly bleeding heart makes this unbearable.

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