The novel was published in 2017 and earned numerous awards, sold millions of copies, and received wide critical acclaim.Įleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award. Cambridge’s Lucy Cavendish College was running a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers and it was just what she was looking for to fulfill her lifelong passion for reading, so she submitted her work and the rest is history. While working at Glasgow University, Gail enrolled in a Faber Academy writing course, writing the first three chapters of what would become Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. She worked at first as a civil servant in economic development and then as an administrator at Glasgow University. However, Gail realised that an academic career was not for her and she started a string of “backroom jobs”. She studied French language and literature at the Glasgow University and continued her education at the University of Oxford, starting a postgraduate course in French poetry. Gail was an avid reader in her childhood, visiting the library “a ridiculous number of times a week” due to her passion for books. Her mother was as a civil servant and her father a scientist. The only way to survive is to open your heart.Gail was born and raised in Stirling, Scotland. Is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes.

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And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger I think you will fall in love, too!” Is about the importance of friendship and human connection. “Beautifully written and incredibly funny,

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