Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

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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.


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    4.5/5 stars. Beautifully written.

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    It was so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time!!! I love its calming tones that was almost always consistent throughout the books.

    The loneliness theme was addressed perfectly well too

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    woah. i just finished this book and it was so good. it started out really good, and then the middle got a little slow for me, and then I really flew through the tail end.
    the main character eleanor is so eccentric, and at the beginning she seemed so odd at times (although sometimes also very relatable) and then the more you learn about her story and her 'mummy' the more you empathize with her. it's crazy to see her transformation and how much i came to love the character. i really loved her office mate, raymond, who did such a great job at accepting her and loving her and being there for her, i wish i was more of a friend like raymond.
    the story was really interesting and i was kind of sad that the book ended so quickly, wished there was more!

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