Come Join Our Disease

I really liked the premise of this book and was interested to see where it went but I couldn't get past the 5 page (on Kobo) graphic description of diarrhoea and subsequent eating of it, then the 5 or so pages of graphic description of vomiting after she's eaten her own faeces. Wtf?!

In terms of plot, I found it hard to believe that 1 year of homelessness (after 30+ years of “normal” life) had changed the character so much that she was unable/unwilling to function normally and enjoy home comforts, like a bed, not sitting in your own soiled clothes etc.

The main character really irritated me, the lengthy descriptions of everything (5 pages describing a tube journey in all manner of similes and metaphors) were just unnecessary and there really should have been warnings about the horrendously graphically detailed descriptions of bodily functions somewhere in the blurb. I'm glad this was a library book and not one I had purchased.