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Down and Out
- Author
- Daniel Lavelle
- Narrator
- Daniel Lavelle
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 26 May 2022
- Run Time
- 7 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
As a care-leaver who has experienced homelessness, award-winning investigative journalist Daniel Lavelle has spent his life navigating social services that are not fit for purpose and leave many vulnerable people slipping through the cracks. For though the right to adequate housing is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the reality is another, much grimmer, story.
In Down and Out, Daniel draws on his own experiences, as well as those of the witty, complex, hopeful individuals he has encountered who have been shunned or forgotten by the state that is supposed to provide for them, in order to shine a powerful light on this world.
Down and Out is a true state-of-the-nation examination of modern homelessness, assessing its significance, its precursors and causes, as well as the role played by government, austerity, charities, and other systems in perpetuating this crisis. Ultimately, it seeks to ask how we as a society might change our practices and attitudes so that one day we might bring it to an end.
(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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Lavelle's ruthless and raw exposé fills me with rage, but also with hope - underneath this harrowing story of injustice lies a lyrical longing for a more compassionate and caring future
David Lammy, Labour MP and author of TRIBES
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Daniel Lavelle is a vital voice on one of the most pressing scandals facing Britain today. A book for every politician, policy maker and reader who wants a fairer and kinder country
Frances Ryan, author of CRIPPLED
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Part memoir, part howl of fury
GUARDIAN
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Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination. [Its] case studies are as bleakly memorable as Raymond Carver stories
TLS
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Details
- Author
- Daniel Lavelle
- Narrator
- Daniel Lavelle
- Duration
- 7 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9781472279118
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Housing and homelessness, Memoirs, Social welfare, social policy and social services, Welfare and benefit systems
Synopsis
'When I zipped up my tent on that first night sleeping rough, I felt no despair... I was just another care leaver who had lost control of his life.'As a care-leaver who has experienced homelessness, award-winning investigative journalist Daniel Lavelle has spent his life navigating social services that are not fit for purpose and leave many vulnerable people slipping through the cracks. For though the right to adequate housing is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the reality is another, much grimmer, story.In Down and Out, Daniel draws on his own experiences, as well as those of the witty, complex, hopeful individuals he has encountered who have been shunned or forgotten by the state that is supposed to provide for them, in order to shine a powerful light on this world. Down and Out is a true state-of-the-nation examination of modern homelessness, assessing its significance, its precursors and causes, as well as the role played by government, austerity, charities, and other systems in perpetuating this crisis. Ultimately, it seeks to ask how we as a society might change our practices and attitudes so that one day we might bring it to an end.(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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