It is different: it is a superb ethnography of what it is like to be young and homeless, based on a study of an emergency accommodation hostel and the lives of the young people who passed through it. Although the empirical work took place almost a decade ago, it could have been done yesterday. There is a strong contemporary feel to the book.
The reader is almost asked to accompany Hall, and the young people he spent time with, on their journey. It starts inside the hostel, but continues into the shabby bedsits at the bottom end of the private housing market and the daily round of existence and survival on the streets. These young people rarely actually live on the streets, but they have to spend inordinate amounts of time in public spaces.
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