Poverty Safari
Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
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4.6 • 43 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.
The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller
Winner of the Orwell Prize.
Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll
Darren McGarvey, award-winning author and presenter of BBC series The State We're In has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry . . .
So he invites you to come on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. This book takes you inside the experience of poverty to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome.
Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it is actually lived, McGarvey sets out what everybody – including himself – could do to change things.
'Another cry of anger from a working class that feels the pain of a rotten, failing system. Its value lies in the strength it will add to the movement for change.' - Ken Loach, director of Kes
Customer Reviews
Trainspotting meets socio-political insight
A rare and honest perspective of a social class being torn at from so many sides. McGarvey is surgical is his understanding of where families and individuals get it so wrong, but how this dilemma can be turned on it’s head and given a different direction. Take a negative and make it more than the sum of its parts. We can all learn from the tragedies within and build new platforms for our offspring.
Worth a read
Good book interesting insights into poverty and also liked the personal development side of things.
I don’t agree with everything in the book though wouldn’t be much point in reading it if I did