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![]() ![]() Her weekend vodka-drinking seems excessive. Her plan to marry a local rock star in order to impress Mummy is just weird. Though I was instantly won over by her cheerful narration, it wasn’t long before I began to suspect that Eleanor is not as fine as she pretends. In fact, she’s "completely fine." Um, yeah, no. ![]() Sure, she doesn’t have friends, but in general, Eleanor is doing okay. ![]() Thirty years old, she’s a mid-level accountant whose life runs along several well-worn, if lonely, tracks: dinners for one, weekly calls with her spritely, acid-tongued "Mummy," and, most of all, taking pains to avoid humanity. Did they wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Are they just clueless about how conversations work? Or could it be that their life experiences give them reason to be guarded, to be wary of giving other people even the tiniest of ins?Įleanor Oliphant falls-mostly-into the latter category. Ever meet one of those people who, for no clear reason, treats you like you’re not worth the time of day? I often wonder what their reason is for acting like that. ![]()
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