Abstract

Gail Honeyman HarperCollins, 2018, PB , 400 pp, £ 8.99, 978-0008172145 Loneliness is topical. This year the government accepted a series of recommendations from the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness and strategies have been devised to combat loneliness. Olivia Laing’s 2017 non-fiction work The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone was widely read and positively reviewed. A quote from the latter is used as an epigraph for Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, a novel about …

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