Rough Edges

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Finding Community Along Britain s Broken Coastline

Natasha Carthew is a leading voice in the working class writers community, she founded the nature writing prize for working class writers and is director of the festival for working class writers.

In Rough Edges, she looks to the coastline of Britain to explore and discover the voices she finds there. Coastal communities are typically some of the most disadvantaged in the country and Natasha explores the day to day challenges they face, bringing in themes of identity, discrimination and what it means to belong.

She shares the stories and the experiences of the people she meets, all in her lyrical, provocative but compassionate way.

Her journey takes her to: Holderness, Brighton, Clacton, Pembrokeshire, Salcombe, Looe, Aberdeen, Blackpool and Middlesborough where she encounters the shared challenges, hopes and disadvantages that come with living, quite literally, on the edge.

PRAISE FOR UNDERCURRENT

'Important and beautifully lyrical' THE TIMES

'A story of queer resistance, of community and of finding your own voice' DAMIAN BARR

'By turns marvellous, moving and mesmerising' ANITA SETHI

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Natasha Carthew

Natasha Carthew is a working-class writer and poet from Cornwall where she lives with her girlfriend. She is the author of eight books and is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Working Class Writers Festival.

Natasha is well known for writing on socioeconomic issues and has written extensively on the subject of how authentic rural working-class voices are represented in fiction for several publications and programmes; including ITV, the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, The Royal Society of Authors Journal, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, the Guardian, the Dark Mountain Project, The Bookseller, Book Brunch, the Big Issue, Mslexia, The Booker Foundation and The Economist.

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