Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.

"A very funny novel about the survivor of childhood trauma... Enlivening this spare existence is a constant inner monologue that is cranky, hilarious, deadpan, and irresistible... Honeyman’s endearing debut is part comic novel, part emotional thriller, and part love story."  -  Kirkus Reviews

One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life. Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?

"This is a narrative full of quiet warmth and deep and unspoken sadness. It makes you want to throw a party and invite everyone you know and give them a hug, even that person at work everyone thinks is a bit weird."  -  Jenny Colgan, The Guardian