Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Author: Gail Honeyman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
First Published: May 9th 2017
Length: 336 pages
ISBN: 0735220689
ASIN: B01KGZVTOE
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a story about strangers, kindness, and the power of friendship. Eleanor is a curmudgeonly loner without any friends, but that’s ok. Her life is perfectly adequate, her basic needs are met, she’s getting along just fine. Or is she?
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Publisher’s Description:
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 that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. 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.
Kimberly in NC says
This book sounds interesting. I might try to pick it up at the library; thanks for the review. I love to read, as well. I have really enjoyed Francine Rivers and Charles Martin. Some of their books more than others, but I really like their writing styles. Francine Rivers’ book The Masterpiece was especially good and so was her Mark of the Lion trilogy. I tend to read a lot of Christian fiction and these were very good books. And then one day, I just happened to pick up a book from the new shelf of the library and it was better than I expected. It was We Hope For Better Things by Erin Bartels. It flashed between 3 different time periods dealing with civil rights and slavery. (The Masterpiece though, is an awesome read…you should really look for it and see what you think. It drew me in and now I wish I hadn’t read it just so I could read it again!)
Laura Bailey says
My pleasure! I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did. 🙂