With a fiercely competitive rental market and huge price hikes, finding a secure place to live is increasingly difficult. Four writers share their stories of floor-to-ceiling mould, exploitative landlords, and trying to work in cramped house shares
Rents a one-bed flat with her boyfriend in Glasgow
Daisy Lafarge, 31, was born in Hastings and studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Her debut novel Paul (2021) won a Betty Trask award, and her poetry collection Life Without Air was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize