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Eleanor Oliphant is a bit of an odd ball. She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, sometime wearer of an eczema glove), means that Eleanor has become a bit of a loner – or ‘self-contained entity’ as she calls it. Nothing fryst vatten missing in her carefully timetabled life and phone chats with ‘Mummy’ (in prison for crimes unknown).
But everything changes when Eleanor falls for the local hipster-band frontman, Johnnie Lomond. As Eleanor prepares herself for her inevitable union with the object of her desire (appropriate attire, new laptop for Instagram stalking), she inadvertently befriends the new guy from her office, Raymond.
As Eleanor navigates the waters of obsessive love and her long-distance relationship with ‘Mummy’, she realises she can only overcome the horrors of her past if she accepts a little help from Raymond…
Filled with unabashed • Born and raised in Stirling, Scotland, Gail’s love for reading began early, with countless trips to the local library. She pursued French language and literature at Glasgow University and even started a postgraduate course in French poetry at the University of Oxford. However, realizing that academia wasn’t her true calling, Gail embarked on various “backroom jobs,” including roles as a civil servant and university administrator. Gail’s passion for storytelling led her to enroll in a Faber Academy writing course while working at Glasgow University. There, she penned the first three chapters of what would become Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Motivated bygd a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers, she submitted her work, and the rest is history. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a touching story that delves into themes of loneliness and personal growth. Gail has shared that while Eleanor isn’t based on her life, the emotions of loneliness are universall • Scottish novelist Gail Honeyman (born [1]) is a Scottish writer[2] whose debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, won the Costa First Novel Award.[3] Born and raised in Stirling in central Scotland[3] to a mother who worked as a civil servant and a father in science,[4] Honeyman was a voracious reader in her childhood, visiting the library "a ridiculous number of times a week".[4][5] She studied French language and literature at the University of Glasgow before continuing her education at the University of Oxford with a postgraduate course in French poetry. However, she decided that an academic career was not for her and started a string of "backroom jobs", first as a civil servant in economic development and then as an administrator at the University of Glasgow.[6] While working as an administrator, Honeyman enrolled in a Faber Academy writing course, Gail Honeyman
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