![]() Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled 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. I can’t decide whether that’s because I fit perfectly with their idea of what an office worker looks like, or whether people hear the phrase work in an office and automatically fill in the blanks themselves – lady doing photocopying, man tapping at keyboard.Įleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live In almost nine years, no one’s ever asked what kind of office, or what sort of job I do there. When people ask me what I do – taxi drivers, dental hygienists – I tell them I work in an office. Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 ![]() Winner of the 2017 Costa Book Awards First Novel Award Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for February 2018 Winner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2018 ![]()
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