The Shame Game - by Mary O'Hara (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Drawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn the portrayal of poverty once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers - the people who live it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What does it mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or 'bad life decisions' rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This misleading account has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about and treated. Drawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara, asks how we can overturn this portrayal once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers - the people who live it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>''In The Shame Game, O'Hara dips into her own life to explore poverty and how it's portrayed in the United States and Britain.'' Washington Post-- "Washington Post"<br><br>"Given the tsunami of economic insecurity unleashed by Covid-19, we have an unprecedented opportunity to further challenge the toxic narratives O'Hara so effectively skewers here." Prospect Magazine<br><br>An exceptional book...a must read and so relevant to the times we are living in now Nursing Times<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mary O'Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer. Her journalism appears in publications including The Guardian and Mosaic Science. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative (2020) & Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK (2014) and is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty initiative, Project Twist-It. Mary has directed/produced short films, run a comedy club, been a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and a producer and consultant on Getting Curious podcast with Jonathan Van Ness. In 2020 she was named Best Foreign Columnist at the Southern California Journalism Awards.
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