E-raamat: Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew

A dark and bitterly funny window on to a part of British life that most would rather sweep under the carpet . . . both inspiring and uplifting. * Daily Telegraph * A compelling piece of ethnography, but it is also a deeply personal memoir . . . Moving but never sanctimonious, it is another City of God, this time for Britain rather than Brazil. * Observer * A damnation of British society that is both violently shocking and laugh-out-loud funny, reading somewhere between a pre-teen Trainspotting and a northern-English equivalent of Larry Clark's Kids . . . a memoir with attitude * Big Issue * Hare writes with laconic self-deprecation, black humour and a humane, ever present sense of railing against the system that failed Urban and his gang . . . exceptional * Metro * An extraordinary account of the parallel world of missing children who live under our noses in every inner city, but officially don't exist. * Sunday Times * A cross between a grim fairytale and a reflective, brazen anecdote . . . a marvellous read. * Alexander Masters, Daily Mail * This is writing from the edge. Bernie Hare is a truly original voice. He deserves to be big - really big! * Fergal Keane * 'Don't miss Bernard Hare's astonishing account of his relationship with Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew' * Anne Fine, Books of the Year, Sunday Herald * 'As a record of contemporary Britain, it is searing...Hare is never sensationalist, sentimental, judgemental or self-regarding' * Sheena Joughin, Times Literary Supplement * 'It reads like a novel - a gripping, vivid, deeply affecting piece of work' * Decca Aitkenhead, New Statesman * Unexpectedly powerful. * Time Out Books of the Year *