Eleanor listens to the Archers as she makes a simple dinner (usually pasta and salad - one pan one plate), watches TV or reads for a little while then off to bed at ten. She finishes out her day, leaving work at 5:30. She starts work at 8:30, at lunch she buys a newspaper which she reads from cover to cover and then does the crossword. She's worked at the same job for nine years. This can lead to very awkward situations.Įleanor is comfortable with her routines.

She's very intelligent and well-spoken with impeccable grammar (thanks to Mummy) but she lacks the ability to filter what she says and therefore she will tell you exactly what she's thinking.

She is content with her life.Įleanor is a little bit.odd. She is honestly not worried that she may be missing out on anything. Just like it says in the title of the book, Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine.well she thinks she is. Although the great reviews may have pulled me in. To be honest, I'm not sure if this book would have been on my radar if I hadn't won it. I won an advanced copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway. The only way to survive is to open your heart. 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. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship-and even love-after all.

Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine

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