![]() ![]() Eleanor is truly a book from the heart and soul of introverts, of the lonely, of the scared. I was concerned this would be another curmudgeonly-character book, one of the many hitting shelves lately like a trend, but that’s not the case. It’s now the fourth book I’ve given 5 stars to in 2018, and it deserved every single one of them and more. Hannah’s review kick-started me reading this book, a book that I would pause to stare at on the shelves, tempted to check out or purchase, but kept walking by. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. 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. 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.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. ![]() Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ![]()
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