“This book, beautifully written and crafted, is an urgent call to researchers working at the cutting edge of literacy studies to listen to the lived experience of people who experience austerity. Literacy research that values the everyday is needed more than ever in order to address key issues of power, social justice and inequality. The book provides a clear account of everyday literacies of families living on a housing estate in the UK. This book exposes the mechanisms by which so many people have been blamed for policies not of their making, and creates a space where engaged literacy research takes centre stage to articulate and challenge these injustices. A riveting and powerfully articulated ‘must read’ for all literacy researchers that explores new paradigms for new times to move the field of literacy studies forward.” (Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

“This is a timely and hugely engaging book; it is a rich ethnographic study with a central focus on the ways in which literacy and inequality are bound together… It is through the sharp lens of literacy, that the pages unpick the critical and Interconnected challenges it presents in relation to social justice. We enter a community that that has been marginalized in so many ways and where austerity is more than a political discourse - it is biting hard. Importantly, the critical discussion opens up to how we can work towards frameworks that offer resistance and challenge inequality in contemporary Britain and beyond.” (Vicky Duckworth, Edge Hill University, UK)