Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Hardcover)

from Dairyqueen84

Equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious! Such beautiful writing. “It was halfway to dark by then, with both a moon and a sun sitting high in a sky that was sugar almond pink and shot with gold. The birds were singing valiantly against the coming night, swooping over the greens in long drunken loo...

from NanetteLS

Throughout this amazing debut, Eleanor Oliphant repeats over and over that she is fine. Her lack of friends and lack of emotional needs (as she tells her counselor) is remedied by a daily routine that includes regular meals, pizza on Friday and vodka in copious amounts each weekend. Two men chang...

from Castlelass

Contemporary fiction about an eccentric young woman with a tragic past that has left her emotionally and physically scarred. Eleanor has limited social skills and an almost non-existent support network but is highly intelligent and pragmatic. As we gradually learn about the trauma she has experie...

from FormerEnglishTeacher

Eleanor Oliphant is at the same time a frustrating and lovable character. Her evolution during the course of the novel is admirable, and her cast of characters, especially Raymond, are admirable and are crucial to that evolution. I don't read a lot of fiction, but I'm glad I read this novel. I hi...

from creighley

Eleanor Oliphant 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. Everything changes when s...