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 social interactions, 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 on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting 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.
This was my second time reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. I re-read it for my book club, and I am glad I did. I remembered so little from when I read it years ago. What I didn't remember from the first time I read it was just how much Eleanor's history hurt my heart. I was delighted that she had Raymond in her life. He was good for her and good to her.
If you have not read this book, why not? You are truly missing out on a great piece of literature.
Details:
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- Pages: 336
- Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
- Publication Date: 5/9/2017
- Buy it Here!
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