Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Author(s): Gail Honeyman

Fiction

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 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.   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.


Product Information

Winner Book of the Year - British Book Awards 2018 Winner Costa Debut Book of the Year 2018 Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction

This book is an emotional roller coaster that is well worth the ride!  Hilarious & heart wrenching. Eleanor is quirky, funny, flawed & misunderstood, she is about to discover that she can’t hide from her past forever and that facing her truth may just set her free. Themes: Identity, dealing with trauma, humor For readers who like: The Rosie Project / Lost & Found  

While Gail Honeyman was writing her debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress. Translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide, Reese Witherspoon bought the film rights, and it was chosen as one of the Observer's Debuts of the Year for 2017. Gail was also awarded the Scottish Book Trust's Next Chapter Award in 2014, and has been longlisted for BBC Radio 4's Opening Lines and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. She lives in Glasgow.

General Fields

  • : 9780008172145
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.328
  • : February 2018
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Gail Honeyman
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823/.92
  • : 400