Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

2017 • 336 pages

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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.


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You know how when someone embarrasses themselves in a movie it can be painful to watch? Some people find it funny, but I myself find it unpleasant to watch. This book was a bit like that for me.

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Absolutely marvelous.

March 7, 2020

very mixed feelings about this one

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