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Amid rising prices and falling confidence, all the forecasts are for such numbers getting even worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, it has never been statistics but rather individual human stories—from the fictionalised accounts of Dickens to the faithful reporting of Orwell and Priestley—that have seared the reality of hard times into the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBroke\u003c\/i\u003e, Tom Clark assembles today's masters of social reportage, including Dani Garavelli, Samira Shackle, and Daniel Trilling, and tasks each with bringing us face-to-face with those at the hardest end of the cost-of-living crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith Joel Goodman's bespoke photography bringing the characters to life, and several of the writers having had first-hand experience of the issues raised, this urgent collection restores some badly needed empathy to the public discussion. Moreover, by setting out possible reforms and highlighting the fortitude and resistance with which so many destitute Britons are answering their plight, it encourages hopes of a future in which the spectres of hunger, cold, and homelessness are finally laid to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An important account of a real emergency and a moral crisis we ignore at our peril.' — Gordon Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBroke\u003c\/i\u003e shows the human side of the shameful statistical record of destitution that austerity and the current cost-of-living crisis has brought to millions of Britons.' — New Statesman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A devastating portrait of modern poverty, \u003ci\u003eBroke\u003c\/i\u003e is urgently reported and beautifully written, with humane and empathetic accounts of what it feels like to be caught in a 21st-century poverty trap. 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