Book Review: Sarah Marie Hall, Everyday Life in Austerity: Family, Friends and Intimate Relations.

Everyday Life in Austerity: Family, Friends and Intimate Relations Hall, Sarah Marie Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, 2019 I Everyday Life in Austerity i draws upon the Sarah Marie Hall's ethnographic research and has an ambitious aim to elevate personal and relational accounts of life in austerity, a phenomenon engrained in the lexicon of post-2010 politics and praxis as much as the "everyday" life of certain communities in the north of England. Chapter 6 focuses on the everyday experience of austerity as it comes to be embodied through crises - both lived and anticipated across an individual life course - perpetuated by the hardships and uncertainty austerity brings. Chapters 4 and 5 highlight how the social infrastructure of the participants can offset the pressures afforded by austerity to the betterment of wellbeing or become detrimentally pressured and fragile due to austerity. [Extracted from the article]