Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell

We say: *****

‘You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ George Orwell

Such a vivid memoire of what its like, in the 1930s, to be destitute, homeless, have to put up with brutality and hunger that you go down with the author and feel the cold and bleakness he describes.
The infamous Hotel X I am sure still exists in many of the glitzy London and Paris hotel scenes where immigrants from all corners of the globe clean rooms or restaurant dishes for a fraction of the minimum wage.

If a book exist that makes you get up from wherever you are reading it ready to change to world, this is one of them.
How old do you need to be to read it? I'm passing it on to daughter and she will let you know...