In 2018 Gail revealed that she was working on a new novel which will be “set in a different period and location”.
When asked how much of Eleanor Oliphant was based on her own life, Gail has said “Eleanor Oliphant isn’t me, or anyone I know – but of course I’ve felt loneliness – everybody does”. The novel was published in 2017 and earned numerous awards, sold millions of copies, and received wide critical acclaim.Įleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award. Cambridge’s Lucy Cavendish College was running a competition for unpublished fiction by female writers and it was just what she was looking for to fulfill her lifelong passion for reading, so she submitted her work and the rest is history. Eleanor spends her free time doing crosswords, listening to the radio, drinking vodka, and reading classic. The title character, Eleanor Oliphant, narrates the story, introducing herself as an office worker with a solitary life in present-day Glasgow, Scotland. While working at Glasgow University, Gail enrolled in a Faber Academy writing course, writing the first three chapters of what would become Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a 2017 comic novel about human connection. She worked at first as a civil servant in economic development and then as an administrator at Glasgow University. However, Gail realised that an academic career was not for her and she started a string of “backroom jobs”. She studied French language and literature at the Glasgow University and continued her education at the University of Oxford, starting a postgraduate course in French poetry. Gail was an avid reader in her childhood, visiting the library “a ridiculous number of times a week” due to her passion for books. Her mother was as a civil servant and her father a scientist. Gail was born and raised in Stirling, Scotland.
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