This book is about the caregiving system and is written by people who have experienced it firsthand.

Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections, and letters from over 100 individuals with caregiving experience, aimed at challenging outdated stereotypes. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences, including kinship care, adoption, foster care, and semi-independent living, among others.

Titles written about caregiving often reinforce negative ideas and dominate discussions, leaving caregiving individuals with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the conversation and offer a window into a world that has been neglected for a long time.

Free Loaves on Fridays offers a range of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes much better when it is thoughtfully chosen.

“Incredible reading and desperately important... This perfectly structured and curated collection should be on the required reading list for 2024” - Lucy Easthope, author of the Sunday Times bestseller When the Dust Settles

“The most important book you will read in 2024. Absolutely gripping from the first page. It’s more than just a book” - Chris Wild, author of The State of It and Damaged

“Please read Free Loaves on Fridays, it’s an emotional journey that will make you cry and laugh. But most importantly, it will help you understand the reality of our system and why it needs to change” - Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields and former social worker

Pages: 336, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm