![]() ![]() Over 8 million other hardworking people (in actual employment, according to government figures) in the UK have been living in similar, unstable and impoverished lives too. Because I’ve worked bloody hard since 2010 when I found myself pregnant and alone. ![]() The unheard voice, that thanks to this caricatured and vilified portrayal has led to a cycle of disregard, humiliation and misunderstanding. That’s the popular perception isn’t it? And I’ve written this book to show you the flip side of these perceptions. You work bloody hard, and you get back what you put in. And you do get what you deserve in life, that’s an actual fact. ![]() We haven’t worked hard enough, we just don’t deserve it, we – just – haven’t – put – the – work – in. ![]() We don’t have Farrow and Ball No.26 ‘Down Pipe’ adoring out living room walls, we have standard magnolia woodchip in the squalid little council flats we shamefully refer to as ‘home’. Women like me – we don’t have husbands and we most certainly don’t have wine o’clock – we have borderline alchoholism. ‘ I am one of the 2 million demonised single women in the UK banished from the sisterhood of posing against Insta-perfect urban walls in gentrified areas because we can’t afford to cook Deliciously Ella on Agas. ![]()
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