This is a book born straight from life lived in Britain below the poverty line - a brutal landscape savaged by universal credit, zero-hours contracts, rising rents and public service funding cuts. Luckily the role will be played by the brilliant Daisy May Cooper who I know will give her warmth and humour and a performance that says ‘f-you’ to the expectations of how women perceived to be at the bottom of society are expected to behave. This will make you question if you (weren't already) the benefits system, the 0 hours system and affordable housing situation.

Told with black humour, it’s a plucky story of a mother and daughter’s resilience and love as they fight to get a roof over their heads in modern Britain. A raw, candid and darkly funny memoir from a stunning new voice on Britain’s poverty line, for fans of Poverty Safari, Prozac Nation, I Daniel Blake and Chavs. Yes, their policies have pushed a lot of people (single mothers particularly) further into poverty and have made children poorer. She’s immoral and shocking and purposefully vile, and swaggerous and quite amazing really – but obviously I would say that as it’s inspired by my life! Together they are a formidable team and have bonded in a way that only their shared life experiences could bring.But their books nonetheless give powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain’s current fracturing: the fact that half a generation can afford no settled place from which they can start to build a life. It is ranged around themes or locations rather than being chronological, and her college and senior school years are absent. Her “You’re only one Tory government away from an IRA comeback” sounds like an anarchist rant until you reflect that the present government is prepared to sacrifice peace in Northern Ireland on the altar of Brexit.

The book is described as being a true story of being brought up and living in poverty as an adult, this book however seems so far away from real life reality. This is fascinating (meaty; analytical) viewing and a huge treat for tennis aficionados, featuring interviews with John McEnroe, Björn Borg, Novak Djokovic, Ivan Lendl and more.She’s a single mother, raising a child in a city she loves, with no support network and a history of domestic abuse. Davies casts her plight in a more romantic light – she convinces herself that living in a shed near the sea without hot water or electricity is her version of Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond.

Her desperation sees her accept a room (well, a cupboard) at a seemingly kind stranger’s flat, only for him to present her with a silky nightgown to wear, and expose himself. De är på väg till frälsningsarmén för att få mat och dottern (lika gammal som min) dokumenterar allt i sin anteckningsbok. This week, they’re once again joined by Rose Ayling-Ellis as they make pasta, do synchronised swimming, play golf and brew beer with monks. Through the cheap jokes at her own expense emerge the turning points of her life: the ever-present question about the wreck of her own childhood: “What makes a mother reject her child?

In the face of all this crap, she manages to have humour and an insane amount of love for her daughter. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities. One scene halfway through the series, in which Costello breaks down having had all her money stolen, took my breath away. Gibney delivers Becker as a whole, flawed human: from power-serving wunderkind to cravat-wearing “bonking” playboy (the infamous “sex in a cupboard” didn’t happen in a cupboard), to the older man, sometimes flashing the signature roguish twinkle, sometimes stooping like a battered, injured lion. Following her striking 2019 memoir, Skint Estate, Cash Carraway has created this eight-part drama – and the result is authentic, original and well worth tuning in to.

Cash Carraway puts me in mind of Nelson Algren or Hubert Selby with their stories of degraded urban life, in this case with the vowels of Penge rather than New York.I knew going in this would be dark at times, bleak and depressing, but I wasn’t expecting it to raise so much anger in me. Skint Estate is a full-throttle dispatch from the front line of the war against the poor, an account of degrading jobs, zero hours contracts, forced “self-employment,” payday loans with three-figure interest rates, benefit sanctions, food banks, slum flats, domestic violence, homelessness and more. Catrina Davies eventually attempted to answer it by living in a corrugated-iron shed near Land’s End. Skint Estate is saved from being a self-pitying moan by Cash Carraway’s wit, her acute turn of phrase and her absolute lack of fear. Gary Beadle plays Gary, simmering with impotent rage, piecing together the fragments of memory and hoping that the one piece of advice his mother left him will be enough to protect him from the uncaring, indifferent powers that be this time round.