Sally Trench as a teenager went to live among and care for the meths-drinkers at the London bombsites, the ultimate outcasts of the Welfare State. Eventually she left them to go to university and to marry; but last year she visited America for some months and chose to spend her time there, too, with the outcasts of the Great Society: the slum-dwellers of Harlem and the derelicts of Skid Row.
In this conversation with LESLIE SMITH she talks about her experiences