03196cam a2200421 i 4500 1578195448 TxAuBib 20240910120000.0 231117s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023053330 9780593470077 trade paperback 0593470079 trade paperback TxAuBib rda Kay, Laura, 1989-, author. Making it [Print] / by Laura Kay. Paperback. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] x, 374 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the author of Wild Things comes a heartwarming and relatable queer rom-com about an isolated young woman whose artistic celebration of her pet chinchilla suddenly launches her into the professional art world, reality TV fame, and first love. Isobel's life is just her, her mum, and her pet chinchilla, Abigail, in their council flat on the Kentish coast. After mental health troubles in her teens, Issy, now twenty-eight, has kept things that way on purpose, only deviating from routine when her part-time job at a paint-your-own pottery studio demands it, or when she's inspired to create art of knitted Abigails, sculptural Abigails, delicately rendered paintings of Abigail. When the Abigails earn the attention of famous artist and reality TV star Elizabeth Staggs, Issy is awestruck and a little alarmed. These emotions compound when Elizabeth makes Issy an unexpected move to London and work for a year shadowing Elizabeth as she produces her hit arts documentary series. Terrified but determined, Issy agrees, and soon finds herself sharing a flat with a crew of boisterous roommates who welcome her into their queer enclave and attempt to mentor her in the city's wide world of romantic possibilities. Issy can't help but wish that one roommate—gorgeous and cool aspiring actress, Robin—might make her mentorship a bit more hands on...even while, at work, she struggles under the guidance of Elizabeth's harsh and exacting young producer, Aubrey. But when Elizabeth seizes on Issy's idea to structure the upcoming season around a group of outsider artists, Issy finds both her work and love lives growing more complicated by the day, whether she's ready or not. Making It is a nuanced and life affirming look at living with depression and of finding, as we all deserve to, self-acceptance, community, and love. 20240910. FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General. Artists Fiction. Depressed persons Fiction. Gender-nonconforming people Fiction. Women artists Fiction. Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy. FICTION / Small Town & Rural. FICTION / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio. FICTION / Coming of Age. London (England) Fiction. Romance fiction. Queer fiction. Novels. TXTLL