Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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4.5 • 909 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon
Named a New York Times 2017 "Books to Breeze Through This Summer"
Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel Award
Winner of the 2018 British Book Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction
A Penguin Book Club Pick
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond's big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repairing her own profoundly damaged one. And if she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.
Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open your heart.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the perfect adult coming-of-age story. Set in Glasgow, the novel draws us into Eleanor’s lonely existence with plenty of heart and charm. We laughed out loud at the 30-year-old heroine’s unapologetic social awkwardness, such as the cringeworthy moment she first goes for a bikini wax or when she offers up a packet of cheese slices from her fridge as a birthday gift. An unlikely alliance with IT guy Ray leads Eleanor to a series of firsts (first haircut, first party)—but her escape from self-imposed exile isn’t without some painful and poignant plot twists.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thirty-year-old narrator Eleanor Oliphant's life in Glasgow is one of structure and safety, but it doesn't offer many opportunities for human connection. At her job of 10 years as a finance clerk, she endures snickers and sidelong glances from her coworkers because she is socially awkward and generally aloof, and her weekends are spent with copious amounts of vodka. Office IT guy Raymond Gibbons becomes a fixture in her life after they help an elderly man, Sammy Thom, when he collapses in the street. Raymond and Sammy slowly bring Eleanor out of her shell, requiring her to confront some terrible secrets from her past. Her burgeoning friendship with Raymond is realistically drawn, and, refreshingly, it doesn't lead to romance, though the lonely Eleanor yearns for love. Debut author Honeyman expertly captures a woman whose inner pain is excruciating and whose face and heart are scarred, but who still holds the capacity to love and be loved. Eleanor's story will move readers.
Customer Reviews
Great!
It’s a great history, however, there should be another chapter to know if Eleanor and Raymond get together:P
Good read!
I was thoroughly entertained by this book. Quirky and fun. Definitely recommend
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
The story started off very slowly for me and I was wondering if I really wanted to continue. I am so glad I did - the more I read the more it pulled me in to her life. Such a great character - actually I quite liked all of her characters. Anyway, I look forward to reading more from this author.