Having no home doesn't just mean sleeping rough

MICHELLE'S STORY

- BY RACHAEL DAVIS

A MUM told how she felt “vulnerable” and “invisible” while spending four months struggling with homelessness.

Like many people, Michelle Marie Edwards, 47, believed that to be homeless meant “sleeping rough, living on the streets”.

But a life-altering series of events - including separation from her husband and her daughter's struggle with mental illness - led to the Aberdeen mum and her teen girl having to sofa-surf with relatives.