We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

We Are Made of Diamond Stuff | Isabel Waidner

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So, how do you fancy a SURREAL experimental take on the queer working-class immigrant experience in Brexit Britain, set in a dead-end seaside hotel on the Isle of Wight? With reeboks and polar bears?

It‘s political and funny and angry and utterly out-there, and I enjoyed it, despite HUGE reservations going in. And it kind-of made sense too! Unexpected.

Having said all that, I have no idea who I‘d recommend this to!

rockpools Ooh, I can use this for #Booked2022 #SetInAnInnLodgeOrHotel @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft 2y

Cinfhen Another FABULOUS review!!! Fun choice for #Booked2022 😃 2y

squirrelbrain Sounds *incredibly* weird! 2y

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batsy Great review! I have them on my TBR because I've seen lots of praise, but I'm also intimidated/scared 😅 2y

rockpools @Cinfhen Thanks Cindy 😁. I was v chuffed to tick another #Booked2022 prompt! 2y

rockpools @squirrelbrain That would be a fair and accurate description! 2y

rockpools @batsy Go for it! I found it a lot less intimidating than I expected. And it is only 110 pages. The references they use, I don‘t think they actually expect anyone to have read/been aware of (which made it a lot easier for me)! I don‘t know how well it will translate for you not based in the UK - there is a LOT of tiny stuff that‘s very specific to here, that might be more of a problem than the way-out-weird stuff. 2y

Cathythoughts Great review 👍🏻♥️ 2y

batsy @rockpools Thanks for the tip! I'll keep that in mind when I get to it. Sounds like it might be a bit of a Googley book for me :) 2y

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rockpools

We Are Made of Diamond Stuff | Isabel Waidner

She is exploring the possibility of them fixing the boiler in exchange for their squid-. No!, I say. The polar bears are novelists, the reeboks are poets, it is not within their remit nor skill set to fix an English boiler!

🐻‍❄️ 🦑 🦌 ✍🏻🚰🤯

And again, what AM I reading?! I‘m possibly enjoying this so far, but it has potential to be WILDLY annoying. Will let you know. Did you ever read this @jhod

squirrelbrain 🤔 2y

TrishB I‘m scratching my head! 2y

jenniferw88 😂😂😂 2y

rockpools @TrishB @TrishB @jenniferw88 I quite like the idea of a polar bear fixing the heating, to be honest. But I‘d rather pay 💰 than 🦑… Perfectly normal reading!! 2y

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imyril

We Are Made of Diamond Stuff | Isabel Waidner

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If you like your fiction surreal, referential and political this may be more up your street than it was mine. It‘s all about class struggle and self sabotage, and erm hungry leopards (maybe). Great themes, but the execution left me cold and irritable.

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