Gail Haniman. Eleanor Oliphant is in order (№ 400596)

In our time, cancer has replaced the solitude is shameful, embarrassing circumstance, sent to you in some unknown way. A terrible, incurable disease, so terrible that you don't dare to mention it; others do not want to hear that word, fearing to be infected, fearing that it would compel fate to inflict upon them a similar curse.