Rough Edges: Finding Community Along Britain’s Broken Coastline
About this ebook
In Rough Edges, she looks to the coastline of Britain to explore and discover the voices she finds there. Coastal communities are typically some of the most disadvantaged in the country and Natasha explores the day to day challenges they face, bringing in themes of identity, discrimination and what it means to belong.
She shares the stories and the experiences of the people she meets, all in her lyrical, provocative but compassionate way.
Her journey takes her to: Holderness, Brighton, Clacton, Pembrokeshire, Salcombe, Looe, Aberdeen, Blackpool and Middlesborough where she encounters the shared challenges, hopes and disadvantages that come with living, quite literally, on the edge.
About the author
Natasha Carthew is a Cornish working-class writer and poet. She is the author of ten books, mostly recently Undercurrent: A Cornish memoir of poverty, nature and resilience (2023), which was shortlisted for the non-fiction prize at the inaugural Nero Book Awards. She has also contributed to Hag: Forgotten Folk Tales (2020) and Women on Nature: 100+ Voices on Place, Landscape & the Natural World (2021) and Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (2025). Natasha has written extensively on nature and socio-economics, and frequently discusses how authentic rural working class writing is represented, for several publications and programmes including BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The Bookseller, Book Brunch, The Big Issue and The Economist. Natasha is the Founder/Director of The Working Class Writers Festival and Common Ground Nature Prize for Working Class Writers.
