At once a powerful memoir, unflinching polemic and probing
investigation into modern homelessness in the UK, by award-winning
investigative journalist Daniel Lavelle
Daniel Lavelle left care at the age of nineteen, and experienced
homelessness for the first time not long after. So began a life spent
navigating social services that were not fit for purpose, leaving Daniel
and many like him slipping through the cracks.
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 dire situation.
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 can bring this injustice to an end.
