You will laugh out loud and involuntarily be teary-eyed throughout the journey with Eleanor. In fact, is it unbelievable that this is her first book given that every character is crafted with such finesse! The story reveals itself after delicately peeling away layers of warm, funny, serious, and traumatic emotions. Gail Honeyman has done a brilliant job with her debut. Eleanor and her problems feel so real that you end up missing her presence after finishing the book. It is so difficult to build a story and a character that remain in your life even after the story is over. There is also an element of surprise and mystery to the tale afforded by. When she and her co-worker Raymond help a stranger on the. But the story was always kept realistically simple, and thats the beauty of it. However, her regimented life takes a turn when she meets Raymond, the IT guy who helps fix her office computer and then herself. Eleanor Oliphant is quite eccentric, she struggles in social situations and openly speaks her mind.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a 1 New York Times bestseller, and has won awards around the globe, including the Costa First Novel Award, the British Book Awards Book of the Year, and the BAMB Reader’s Choice Award. She has everything set in a routine for herself – from solving the crossword during lunch-time at her job as an accountant or buying specific items from the same specific store to spending every weekend evening in a vodka-induced detachment to pass the time. Gail Honeyman is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Eleanor Oliphant is a woman in her 30s living a completely solitary life.

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