6/30/2023 0 Comments Skint estate book![]() ![]() When she learns she is pregnant, she does everything within her means to construct a world in which her daughter will be protected. In unashamed and emotionally bruising prose, Carraway interrogates the notion of inter-generational trauma and shows us that it is possible to break legacies of abuse and hurt. Through it, the author takes back control of her own story and challenges the voices that speak for and over working-class single mothers in contemporary society. Skint Estate fights for a way to articulate these experiences. ![]() She attempts to forge a home in a city that no longer has space for her, learns how to show love even though she was never taught it, and searches for self-worth in a country that thrives on her demonisation. Credit: Festival of the Future CityĬash Carraway’s memoir details a life lived between the cracks of austerity Britain. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Since Rat won’t take Mole to meet Badger, Mole decides to venture into the Wild Wood one winter day to call on Badger. But Toad doesn’t care about caravans anymore he only cares about cars. ![]() Several days into the journey, a car races up behind the caravan, scaring the horse so badly that the horse dumps the caravan into the ditch. Toad’s newest hobby is traveling in a caravan-and he expects Mole and Rat to go with him on his first adventure. Toad has a reputation for picking up expensive hobbies and then moving onto something new when the hobby proves too difficult. One day, he asks Rat to take him to meet Toad, who’s wealthy and conceited. Over the next few months, Mole learns a lot about boating and river life. Rat good-naturedly puts the boat back together, takes Mole back home with him, and invites him to stay for a while. When Rat refuses to let Mole row, Mole snatches the oars and promptly capsizes the boat. ![]() On the way back after the picnic, he becomes jealous-he wants to row. Mole immediately loves everything about boating and life on the riverbank. Rat invites Mole to go on a picnic with him, so they take Rat’s boat down the river. There, he meets Rat, who lives in a home built into the riverbank. ![]() He trots along until he comes to a river, the first he’s ever seen. Suddenly, seemingly for no reason, Mole throws down his broom and whitewash and scrabbles his way to the surface. Mole has been spring-cleaning his small underground home all morning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission. ![]() After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. ![]() |