Extremely well written and the things develop slowly for a few pages and then keeps you engaged when the author slowly takes us to the past life of Eleanor and the bad phase that she faces now.
Plot:
Eleanor Oliphant lives in Scotland and she is 30 years old. She works as a cleric from the beginning of her career having the same routine for years. When someone asks if she is fine she always says 'Fine'. The Story is said by Elenor who had a troubled childhood and now leading a meaningless life.
Things develop to find if is she really 'fine'.
Two major things happen to Eleanor, one affects her while the other helps her.
She develops a crush on a musician; She meets her new colleague Raymond. Major part of the story is about the bad days of Eleanor and how she overcomes them by taking help and starting to live a meaningful life.
Quotes
“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. 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. FINE is what you say.”
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
“These days, loneliness is the new cancer–-a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
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