'Combines extensive ethnographic research and scholarship, poetic writing and remarkable empathy to illuminate the lives of those who survive and sleep on city streets and to show brilliantly the mobile, skilful, humane ways in which care and outreach workers seek relate to and help them'
Professor Harry Ferguson, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham 'A brilliant, ... Read moreinsightful and at times very funny portrait of hidden lives and those who care for them. This is a beautifully written and erudite book about city life that exudes a deep but irreverent sense of humanity'
Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London 'A rare glimpse into the physical world and urban spaces of rough sleepers who live in the city though often unacknowledged. A sensitive and evocative account'
Professor Setha Low, City University of New York Show Less