SuitabookHousing and class
Young people and families are situated in a coastal-rural housing crisis shaped by second-home ownership and underfunding.
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Nicola Garrard - Author
This is a socially engaged teenage novel focused on housing inequality, class and protest in coastal-rural communities. Its central concerns include political participation, social anger and how extremist ideas can offer apparently simple answers.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a socially engaged teenage novel focused on housing inequality, class and protest in coastal-rural communities. Its central concerns include political participation, social anger and how extremist ideas can offer apparently simple answers.
Young people and families are situated in a coastal-rural housing crisis shaped by second-home ownership and underfunding.
The fictional teenagers encounter conditions that may foster anger, while the novel considers protest and the attraction of extremist answers.
Be prepared to discuss housing insecurity, social inequality and far-right radicalisation, alongside contextual references to possible risks including unemployment, drug misuse and ill-health.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
On the Edge by Nicola Garrard – The Federation of Children's Book Groups
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