Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It

This book is all about the care system, and it’s written by people who have experienced it first-hand. Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by more than 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge worn-out stereotypes. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others. Headlines written about care often entrench negative ideas and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long. Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it’s been chosen. ‘Incredible read and desperately important . . . This perfectly structured and perfectly edited collection should be on everybody’s must-read list for 2024’ Lucy Easthope, Sunday Times -bestselling author of When the Dust Settles ‘The most important book you will read in 2024. Absolutely gripped from the first page. It is more than just a book’ Chris Wild, author of The State of It and Damaged ‘Please do read Free Loaves on Fridays , it’s an emotional journey that will make you cry and laugh. But most of all understand the reality of our care system and why it absolutely must change’ Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields and former social worker —- ISBN: 9781800183001