Down and Out

***Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction***

''Part memoir, part howl of fury'' GUARDIAN

''Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

''Raw and compelling'' FINANCIAL TIMES

''Shows the human cost of a genuinely Kafka-esque bureaucratic system'' NEW STATESMAN

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