Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs)
Feel free to judge this book by its cover, it does what it says on the tin
Title: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Press: HarperCollins Prizes: Costa First Novel Award (2017) Book of the Year at The British Book Awards (2018) Date of publication: 2017 Date of purchase: August 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of purchase: Free as part of the KU Big Read Reading time: 1 Week Rating:  8 This book came …
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The author of the runaway success Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine gave an audience at Kingston University on Wednesday 24th October and it was lovely. Ostensibly this is a book about loneliness, so how has it become a genre defining novel in the category of ‘up-lit’? Part of the answer to this question must lie in …
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Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs) 