British-Irish author, playwright and screenwriter Cash Carraway’s memoir Skint Estate was a stylish, funny, eye-popping exploration of a life on the margins.
Subtitled ‘A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival’, it created quite a stir, winning praise from Kathy Burke and Ken Loach among many others when it was published in 2019.
Her new television series is not an adaptation of Skint Estate. Although that was the original plan. And that is what the BBC, HBO and Sid Gentle Films (makers of Killing Eve) signed up to. Billie Piper was all set to star.
Then Carraway changed her mind. She was prepared to walk away. Which takes serious courage when you are in a room with the producers of some of
