Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Gail Honeyman
• Title: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
• Publisher: ‎ Penguin Books (2018)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 325 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0735220697
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0735220690
• Item Weight: ‎ .65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.3 x 0.72 x 7.98 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

“Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese Witherspoon

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.

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting 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. 

About the Author:

Gail Honeyman (born 1972) is a Scottish writer whose debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award, and since then Honeyman has been interviewed often, including by The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Waterstones. Of her relationship with the book's titular character she told The Daily Telegraph: "Eleanor Oliphant isn't me, or anyone I know [but] of course I've felt loneliness – everybody does".

In January 2018, Honeyman said she was working on a new novel, "set in a different period and location." A book with the acting title Gail Honeyman Untitled Book 2 (Harper Collins, ISBN 9780008172169) has been listed with publication date 12 September 2024 or 27 February 2025.