Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive but not how to live. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch, and spends her weekends alone at home. When she and the bumbling IT guy Raymond save an elderly man who has fallen, the three form an unlikely friendship that challenges Eleanor's carefully constructed routines and forces her to confront the dark secrets of her past.
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Thirty-year-old Eleanor Oliphant lives alone in Glasgow with a rigid routine and a Wednesday-night call from Mummy. A small act of kindness involving a fallen pensioner and a coworker named Raymond changes everything.
Yes. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award and was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. It was a major commercial success.
It is a tragicomedy. The novel mixes deadpan social comedy with a slowly revealed traumatic backstory. Many readers describe the experience as funnier in the first half and heavier in the second.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine was written by Gail Honeyman by Pamela Dorman Books.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a standalone novel by Gail Honeyman, not part of a series.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
