Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
(Format used for this read: Print–paperback)
Latest book club read and I thought it was outstanding! 👍
Official back of the book summary:
“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”
This book wasn’t what I expected going into it….
There was a lot of darkness in the main character’s story that unfolds in each chapter…
You discover that her quirkiness and oddities that make her so hilarious and charming are actually are rooted in so much pain, confusion and brokenness.
I loved how this was written and how the characters were developed…again another book I felt all the feels during…
happiness, sadness, peacefulness, anger, frustration, envy, pity…so many things packed in.
Looking forward to discussing this with the group!
If you liked the book “A Man Called Ove” you will definitely enjoy this one too.