eleanor oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman

Twenty – first book of 2020

Reading period: Mar 24th 2020 – Mar 29th 2020

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 unnecessary human contact, 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, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she’ll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.

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. . . 

the only way to survive is to open your heart.

Rating

Review

It took me a while to jump into the story; I nearly DNF it. Indeed, I struggled to adhered with her and her behaviour. I decided to continue to read it as everyone was gushing about it and I wanted to know why.

Best decision! As I get used to her, I started to be more attached to her. I wanted to know more about her and her past. You have a real evolution of the main character about her behaviour, socially and even mentally. During the whole story, I was so resentful about her “mummy” every time she appears, but I don’t think that I am the only one.

The end was astonishing; it makes me cry. It was worth it to read this book even if I struggled to read it at the beginning.

Liz.