This is also a story about people who are introverts and treat them as ‘equal’ to the socially accepted extroverts in the Western world. This book will resonate with anyone who has experienced loneliness or feeling of being isolated or abandoned in their lives, while loneliness does not necessarily mean something negative. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine portrays a life of a young woman working in Glasgow and, it is rather a grim portrayal of the mundanity of everyday life. Gail Honeyman said somewhere that what inspired her to write this book was reading an article about the experience of one young woman who said that she did not speak to anyone from the time she left work on Friday evening until she was back at work on Monday morning.įor me, the story of Eleanor is very realistic especially after living and working in London for so long. – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanĮleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine constitutes a meditation about isolation and loneliness among young people in the modern world. “I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person’s hand holding mine.” You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn’t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. “If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE.
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