Nick
Danziger began his journey in June 1994, as
newspapers and magazines throughout the land
commemorated the 50th anniversary of the D-Day
landings and recalled the Allies' war aims (to
"afford assurance that all men in all lands may
live out their lives in freedom from fear and
want"). For the best part of a year, he lived among
the homeless and unemployed in many of the ruined
manufacturing and so-called "no-go" areas of
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. With
courage and sensitivity, he won the trust of the
street children and shared the lives and heard the
stories of hundreds of society's outsiders. A
powerful and disturbing documentary (with 48 pages
of his own photographs) of life in Britain for a
forgotten section of society in the mid-1990s, and
a tribute to the resilience of individuals faced
with overwhelming odds.
“This book is so important that every one of us should read it and weep!”
The Independent
“This book is so important that every one of us should read it and weep!”
The Independent
