![]() ![]() ![]() Spends her weekends by herself drinking just enough vodka to ensure she’s “…usually I don’t speak from the point at which I state my destination to the bus driver on Friday night, right through until I greet his colleague on Monday morning.” Eleanor is fine being by herselfįirst thing that strikes you about Eleanor is how little she interacts with As Eleanor starts forming real relationships, she’s forced to confront her past and the emotions that she’s suppressed for a very long time. Eleanor resolves to practise her social skills with the new IT guy, Raymond, after the two of them save Sammy, an elderly gentleman, who had fallen outside their place of work. Everything is fine until Eleanor falls for local singer Johnnie Lomond and she decides she needs to change a few things if she is to be the girlfriend of a rock star. She works in an office every weekday and on Friday’s she goes to Tesco Metro to buy a Margherita pizza, some red wine and two big bottles of vodka. Eleanor is fine sticking to her routineĮleanor’s carefully timetabled life is under control. I’ve been recommending it to everyone I know so I thought I’d share five reasons why Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, grab-the-tissues heartbreaking and all kinds of brilliant. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is one of the best books I’ve read. ![]()
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