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2000s: Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
What you need to know before your trail
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.
Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.
One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.
Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?
Locations
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A guide to help Eleanor live life in Glasgow (the author’s home town)
A city can be the loneliest place on earth if you don’t know anyone. Glasgow is a city with lots of places to go and people to meet – it might even have one of the friendliest reputations in the country if not a rather rough and ready one – but there is a thread of friendship and friendliness running through it. Not every one speaks with a strong accent or swears or uses the local vernacular – there are pockets of all kinds of people in every city you go to.
Peoples-palace-winter-gardens
Many people use this as a meeting point and area to spend time in. It’s a lovely park and the museum tells the story of the city and its people from 1750 to the present day.
Glasgow Museum
See the real story of Glasgow life right here
Glasgow Hidden Gems
Eleanor will be pleased to know that there are lots of hidden gems where you least expect them! Very apt
Glasgow is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and there is lots to see and do – just next time you’re there, or in any city, just take a look around and see if you can spot an Eleanor. There’s a lot more than you think.
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Author/Guide: Gail Honeyman Destination: Glasgow Departure Time: 2000s
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