I enjoyed this, very funny, characters are great and sweet, Gail Honeyman's writing group was very lucky to read and critique this. There were inconsistencies, though. The spoiler-ful list of inconsistencies are blogged elsewhere. I'll note that Sons of the Desert, the Laurel & Hardy movie Eleanor sits down to watch, does not have Stan & Ollie joining the Foreign Legion, that film would be Flying Deuces.

And yes, [here be spoilers] sbe gur nzbhag bs qevaxvat Ryrnabe qbrf, V vzntvarq ure gb or n zhpu ynetre jbzna, fb jura fur erprvirf Fnzzl'f fjrngre sebz uvf fba Xrvgu, V jnf fhecevfrq gung gur fjrngre jnf sne gbb ovt sbe ure gb jrne. Vg'f arire erirnyrq ubj n fvatyr zbgure bs gjb puvyqera nssbeqf n ubhfr va Znvqn Inyr naq pna nssbeq unhgr phvfvar sbe ure xvqf. Ryrnabe'f jrrxyl nhqvgbel unyyhpvangvbaf nyfb raq rknpgyl jura Ryrnabe jvfurf gurz gb. [/spoilers end]