Housing Benefit Hill And Other Places

Culled from his regular columns in the London Guardian and Britain's homeless paper, The Big Issue, Stone passionately documents life as experienced "in every run-down council estate in the land, peopled by the forgotten generation of post-Thatcherite Britain: the poor, the ejected, the rejected, the lost." Not since Orwell has someone written with such vigor, passion, and anger, about the other half. Unlike Orwell, C.J. isn't just paying a visit, that's where he's always lived. "The last time I spoke to C.J. was a year or two back; he'd given up writing and become a car park attendant. 'But why?' I asked him. 'Because for the time being I've had enough of going nowhere he replied.' Now isn't that just it?" —Penny Rimbaud, from the preface

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