2022/28: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine -- Gail Honeyman

2022/28: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine -- Gail Honeyman

No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn’t know how to make it right. Mummy’s way was wrong, I knew that. But no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life... [p. 232]

Eleanor Oliphant is thirty years old, a creature of habit who wears identical clothes every day, does not believe in pretending or hiding her feelings, spends her evenings and weekends alone, and is proud of needing nobody else. Despite this, she has just fallen in love with the man she intends to marry, though they have not properly met.

Or: Eleanor Oliphant is thirty years old, poorly socialised, represses all memories of her childhood, drinks a bottle of vodka every Friday night, has no meaningful social interactions except for fraught conversations with her mother, and states that she has no emotional needs. Despite this, she has developed a crush on a guy in a band, and is stalking him.

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