Overview
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too " --Reese Witherspoon 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. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting 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.
Professional Reviews
"A charmer. . . satisfyingly quirky."
-- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Books to Breeze Through This Summer"
"This wacky, charming novel. . . draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance. . . Hilarious and moving."
-- People
"Eleanor Oliphant is a quirky loner and a model of efficiency with her routine of frozen pizza, vodka and weekly phone calls with Mummy. [She''s] a woman beginning to heal from unimaginable tragedy, with a voice that is deadpan, heartbreaking and humorous all at once." -NPR.org, Best Books of 2017
"Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. . . Eleanor Oliphant may be completely fine, but this book is completely wonderful."
-- PureWow
"Warm and funny. . . You''ll want to read it."
-- TheSkimm Eleanor Oliphant [is] the kind of book you''ll want to devour in a single sitting." - -Vox, Best Books of 2017
"Warm and funny...plus Reese bought the rights to this one...You''ll want to read it."-- TheSkimm
"Sweet and satisfying, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will speak to introverts who have ever felt a little weird about their place in the world."
-- Bustle,
"9 Books for Introverts to Read When They Just Don''t Feel Like Socializing"
"Equal parts charming and hilarious, this Reese Witherspoon-approved book is a must read for anyone struggling with their own self-discovery."
-- Bustle,
"13 Self-Love Stories About Women Finding Themselves Instead Of ''The One''"
"Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows is expertly woven and absolutely gripping."
-- Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You
"I have read a few great novels recently, but the one that stuck with me the most over the last few months if Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine . It made me laugh, it made me cry, and the entire time I beamed with joy at the beauty of this story. I fell in love with Eleanor and never wanted the book to end. I wanted so badly to keep following her story." -Krysten Ritter, actress, producer, and author of Bonfire
"This wacky, charming novel...draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance....Hilarious and moving."
-- People
"A charmer. . . satisfyingly quirky."
-- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Books to Breeze Through This Summer"
"This book gave me immense joy during a year that I think we can all agree was a challenge to every American''s joy center. Eleanor Oliphant is a remarkably memorable character, a socially awkward curmudgeon who often made me laugh out loud at the ways she is impervious to social conventions. It was pure pleasure watching her change and grow over the course of the book, her heart opening slowly like a late-blooming flower."
-- Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird, for Texas Monthly,
"Best Books of 2017, According to Texas authors"
"Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman''s A Man Called Ove )--there''s a new curmudgeon to love. . . Walking in Eleanor''s practical black Velcro shoes is delightfully amusing, her prudish observations leavened with a privately puckish humor. But readers will also be drawn in by her tragic backstory, which slowly reveals how she came to be so entirely Eleanor. Witty, charming, and heartwarming, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a remarkable debut about a singular woman. Readers will cheer Eleanor as she confronts her dark past and turns to a brighter future. Feel good without feeling smarmy."
-- Booklist (starred review)
"Astounding."
-- PopMatters
" Eleanor Oliphant is endearing, [a] whip-smart read. . . Perfectly paced, odd, shocking and hilarious, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a fascinating story about loneliness, hope, tragedy and humanity. Honeyman''s delivery is wickedly good, and Eleanor won''t leave you anytime soon."
-- Associated Press
"Honeyman''s endearing debut is part comic novel, part emotional thriller, and part love story. . . hilarious, deadpan, and irresistible."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"[A] captivating debut. . . a feel-good story that will make readers laugh and cheer for Eleanor as she learns that the past doesn''t dictate the future, and that happiness can be hers. This is a must-read for those who love characters with quirks."
-- BookPage
"If you thought Fredrik Backman''s Ove was a charming curmudgeon, you''ll instantly fall for Eleanor."
-- Hello Giggles
"The book is wonderfully, quirkily funny. You both ache for Eleanor. . . and laugh with her."
-- Seattle Times
"That Eleanor''s social awkwardness is extreme, sometimes painfully and often comically so, is far more apparent to the reader than it is to Eleanor herself -- and that we get this through Eleanor''s own narration is a credit to the author''s cleverness and craft. . . A touching, funny novel."
-- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Debut author Honeyman expertly captures a woman whose inner pain is excruciating and whose face and heart are scarred, but who still holds the capacity to love and be loved. Eleanor''s story will move readers."
-- Publishers Weekly
"[Eleanor Oliphant] happens to be among the most compelling and complex characters drawn in recent memory, one who is always peculiar, often infuriating, but funny and utterly endearing."
-- The National (Scotland)
"Gail Honeyman''s wonderful debut novel hits the summer read sweet spot: an intelligent, complex, funny, heartbreaking book that you''ll want to read in a single sitting."
-- The Irish Times
"The human need for connection, initially scorned by Eleanor, is this heart-rending novel''s central theme. Eleanor Oliphant is most definitely not completely fine, but she is one of the most unusual and thought-provoking heroines of recent contemporary fiction."
-- The Irish Times
"Heart-wrenching yet humorous; dark yet full of life--the debut novel from this Glasgow-based author is nothing short of extraordinary. This is a story... that everyone will be talking about this summer."
-- Hello Canada , June 2017
" Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is filled with laughter and hope, and has such faith in the power of love and friendship to rescue even the most damaged individuals."
-- Georgia Costal Illustrated
"We are truly living in a golden age for new female writing. Among my favourite books of the year has been Gail Honeyman''s debut, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine . Eleanor--30 going on 70, basically--is not a character you''ll forget in a hurry. And Honeyman has managed a brilliant weaving of light and shade; black humour and crushing tragedy. Reese Witherspoon has already snapped up the film rights."
-- The Independent (Ireland)
"Another fantastic book about someone outside the norm.... It''s misery memoir meets Adrian Mole with a bit of The Office thrown in. What''s not to like?"
-- The Mail on Sunday
"Like a contemporary Jane Eyre, Gail Honeyman''s Eleanor Oliphant is a woman scarred by profound loneliness, and the shadow of a harrowing childhood she can''t even bear to remember. Bit by bit, and with extraordinary courage, however, Eleanor begins peeling the layers of protective numbness, letting others near for the first time, and reaching for the life she hasn''t believed she deserves. Deft, compassionate and deeply moving--Honeyman''s debut will have you rooting for Eleanor with every turning page. I loved this story."
-- Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun
"So powerful--I completely loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ."
-- Fiona Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow
"Moving, hilarious, and intriguing, just like its unique, anti-social, anti-heroine. You will fall in love with Eleanor Oliphant."
-- J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
"Honeyman''s debut is a stunner, as buoyant and charming as it is heartwrenching and emotionally sophisticated. Poor Eleanor Oliphant--often clueless, at times maddening, but always fascinating--walks right off the page and into the reader''s heart. Not only is Eleanor Oliphant completely fine, she''s a revelation."
-- Jonathan Evison, author of This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
"Eleanor Oliphant endears herself to the reader with her cantankerous charm and her disarmingly inscrutable voice. A compulsive, irresistible narrative that arcs toward compassion and light."
-- Mona Awad, author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
"Heart-wrenching and wonderful!"
-- Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Paradise Lodge A Vogue Australia Book Club Pick, June 2017
