"The Safety Net" - by Clive Hendry - meet the author

bristol | community | event notice Wednesday December 21, 2011 13:08 by Hydra bookshop info at hydrabooks dot org

Meet the author at Hydra Bookshop, 34 Old Market where he will talk about "The Safety Net".

TheSafety Net is a fact based novel set in a hostel for homeless people. The book follows eight people living and working in the hostel as they struggle with the loss of independence within the bureaucracy and inefficiencies of the welfare state. The novel is structured as a series of overlapping shortstories, one for each main character.

Each of them find somewhere to live in Webber House, a hostel for the homeless. But in the bureaucratic, under-resourced world of support services, will Webber House be the safety net they need?

Although some sections of The Safety Net are inspired by real experiences, it is a work of fiction. Any similarities to particular people or hostels are purely coincidental. Sections relating to the benefits system, social housing and support services are intended to be plausible.