Cash Carraway

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If she's playing a character then I doubt she cares that much about instagram? Its just another character? She earns a good living playing clubs, I bet she isn't even angry!

Thing is, there’s enough media stereotypes. Anyone could do that. I’d hope that seeing as she’s actually had to stay in a refuge, she might try and challenge the stereotype a bit, challenge people’s perceptions. Especially as she’s so anti-middle class, and a lot of middle class people have some real ‘dv happens to us and not them’ stereotypes.

She does challenge the stereotype. the character is a middle class women who ends up doing 'poverty porn' as cash always goes on about. Have you seen the recent production? I couldn't;t make it so don't know if different to what I saw a year ago.

 

If she's playing a character then I doubt she cares that much about instagram? Its just another character? She earns a good living playing clubs, I bet she isn't even angry!



She does challenge the stereotype. the character is a middle class women who ends up doing 'poverty porn' as cash always goes on about. Have you seen the recent production? I couldn't;t make it so don't know if different to what I saw a year ago.

My head just melted ?

 

[AliceinWanderlust]

"she was playing the part of Cash Carraway playing the part of refuge woman"

Sorry? What? I do hope that her publisher is ensuring that her book is clearly marked a work of fiction

How bleeping offensive to people who shared their stories on Instagram with her - some of whom were very vulnerable - and who ckearly didn't realise this was some kind of performance "art".

I’m flabbergasted.

 

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My head melted writing that, she's a very strange women it would appear

I’m flabbergasted.

She was in a refuge, there is a Mumsnet thread from 2017 where she asks for help. it was all over twitter too so that all checks out. I just don't know what is true and what isn't but their is evidence of living in a refuge, she is confusing perhaps purposefully so?

 

[Ladyhearmetonight]

Her book isn't about refuges? It's a memoir

It's a memoir. About living in a refuge - according to whomever it is she is PRETENDING to be

 

Her book isn't about refuges? It's a memoir

She has described it as a collection of essays on her website. Will be in the politics section she said on her page. I felt like she had been making a subtle shift away from memoir, although penguin still describe it as a memoir.

 

[Ladyhearmetonight]

She has described it as a collection of essays on her website. Will be in the politics section she said on her page. I felt like she had been making a subtle shift away from memoir, although penguin still describe it as a memoir.

Critical question: will it be marked as a work of fiction or not

 

It's a memoir. About living in a refuge - according to who ever it is she is PRETENDING to be

So not a real memoir then? A memoir of a character. Jeez this is confusing to plebs like me who don’t understand art.

 

[Don't Ask]

It's not about living in a refuge because I asked her, it's about living in poverty under tories. I met her, she said it's about being poor and is very different to refuge woman.

It's a memoir. About living in a refuge - according to whomever it is she is PRETENDING to be

It's not about living in a refuge, I asked her. She said it is abut being poor under tories and is different to refuge woman.

 

[Ladyhearmetonight]

"Blunt, dignified and brutally revealing, Skint Estate takes Cash’s personal story and skilfully weaves it into a manifesto for change."

This is from the penguin website. A personal story is a memoir or an autobiography. Unless it is made up. Then it's a novel. It is completely unethical of Penguin to publish something as a "personal story" unless they make it clear that it is fiction, as applicable. It is also totally unethical and probably legally actionable to use other people's life stories and pass that off as your own.

 

it's about living in poverty under tories. I met her, she said it's about being poor and is very different to refuge woman.

But is it HER experience of living under the Tories or a character’s? I’m still confused.

 

[Ladyhearmetonight]

It's not about living in a refuge because I asked her, it's about living in poverty under tories. I met her, she said it's about being poor and is very different to refuge woman.



It's not about living in a refuge, I asked her. She said it is abut being poor under tories and is different to refuge woman.

Well, you'd better tell her publishers that then as this is their blurb:

Cash Carraway is a single mum living in temporary accommodation.
She’s been moved around the system since she left home at sixteen.
She’s also been called a stain on society.
And she’s caught in a poverty trap.
Skint Estate is the hard-hitting debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence – set against a grim landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows.
Told frankly, but with a swaggerous eye roll and a smirk, Cash delves into the reality of family estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and domestic violence in working-class Britain today. The reality of her circumstances take us on her isolated journey, as benefit cuts, lone parenting and zero contract hours force her to turn to food banks, REFUGES [MY EMPHASIS] and temporary accommodation - and a feeling of displacement and seperation follows.

Edit: blurb can't even spell "separation" properly.

This is so outrageous that intend to send this whole thread to Penguin and ask them to explain on what basis they are publishing this

 

[Don't Ask]

People who write fiction can write memoir also. Why can't she do both?

Well, you'd better tell her publishers that then as this is their blurb:

Cash Carraway is a single mum living in temporary accommodation.
She’s been moved around the system since she left home at sixteen.
She’s also been called a stain on society.
And she’s caught in a poverty trap.
Skint Estate is the hard-hitting debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence – set against a grim landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows.
Told frankly, but with a swaggerous eye roll and a smirk, Cash delves into the reality of family estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and domestic violence in working-class Britain today. The reality of her circumstances take us on her isolated journey, as benefit cuts, lone parenting and zero contract hours force her to turn to food banks, REFUGES [MY EMPHASIS] and temporary accommodation - and a feeling of displacement and seperation follows.

I'm sure that Penguin have got the legalities covered?!

 

People who write fiction can write memoir also. Why can't she do both?

Absolutely people can do both but it is disingenuous to call something a memoir when it isn’t autobiographical. I’m not in publishing but surely this is a pretty basic premise of a memoir? ?

 

[Don't Ask]

How do you know it isn't autobiographical? I don't know and neither do you? Or do you know?

 

[Fluffs]

I’m confused ?

I’ve seen her clearly state on ig she was in a refuge. So has she based various essays on the women she met whilst in there, and her own story too? Like others have said, she has allegedly used another woman’s dv experience and passed it off as her own.

Anyway. There’s a big difference between a memoir and a collection of stories imho.

 

[Ladyhearmetonight]

People who write fiction can write memoir also. Why can't she do both?



I'm sure that Penguin have got the legalities covered?!

No one is saying they can't. It's about making sure that it us made clear to readers what the premise of a book - particulary about sensitive and emotive issues - is before they buy it. Would it be fine fir me to pretend I have cancer and write a book about that and appear all over Instagram before saying that it was just performance art. No. It would be totally inappropriate and offensive.

 

Well, you'd better tell her publishers that then as this is their blurb:

Cash Carraway is a single mum living in temporary accommodation.
She’s been moved around the system since she left home at sixteen.
She’s also been called a stain on society.
And she’s caught in a poverty trap.
Skint Estate is the hard-hitting debut memoir about impoverishment, loneliness and violence – set against a grim landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows.
Told frankly, but with a swaggerous eye roll and a smirk, Cash delves into the reality of family estrangement, mental illness, alcoholism and domestic violence in working-class Britain today. The reality of her circumstances take us on her isolated journey, as benefit cuts, lone parenting and zero contract hours force her to turn to food banks, REFUGES [MY EMPHASIS] and temporary accommodation - and a feeling of displacement and seperation follows.

Edit: blurb can't even spell "separation" properly.

This is so outrageous that intend to send this whole thread to Penguin and ask them to explain on what basis they are publishing this

That blurb makes my brain itch ?

 

How do you know it isn't autobiographical? I don't know and neither do you? Or do you know?

I have no idea. I’m more confused than ever. Someone said they met her and she said Cash was a character.

 

[Ladyhearmetonight]

How do you know it isn't autobiographical? I don't know and neither do you? Or do you know?

When looking at the facts, you don't even seem to know what the book is about according to your previous posts. What you have been told directly contradicts what Penguin are marketing and describing the book as. That being the case, there is enough information to pass to them and ask them to investigate and confirm on what basis they are actually publishing this book