Natasha Carthew is a leading voice in the working class writers community, she founded the nature writing prize for working class writers and is director of the festival for working class writers. 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.