Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Ā· HarperCollins Ā· Narrated by Cathleen McCarron
4.7
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ā€¢ Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

ā€¢ No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and No.1 New York Times bestseller

ā€¢ One of the Sunday Times' 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years

ā€¢ Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon

ā€˜Funny, touching and unpredictableā€™ Jojo Moyes

Winner of the Audie award for Best Fiction Audiobook 2018

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive ā€“ 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.

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 ā€“ while searching for the courage to face the dark corners sheā€™s avoided all her life.

Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than... fine?

ā€˜Heartwrenching and wonderfulā€™ Nina Stibbe

ā€˜Deft, compassionate and movingā€™ Paula McLain

ā€˜I adored it. Skilled, perceptive, Eleanor's world will feel familiar to you from the very first page. An outstanding debut!ā€™ Joanna Cannon

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4.7
91 reviews
A Google user
January 14, 2019
Great! The book puts you into the mind, heart and spirit of Eleanor Oliphant. I really enjoyed the book, it's many emotional ups and downs keeps the reader engaged throughout!
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Emma Martin
August 4, 2018
My first audio book and I loved it. I loved Eleanor and could relate to her in many ways. Being from Glasgow I could relate to how places and things were described. A heartwarming story that had me feel many different emotions. Thoroughly recommend!!!
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Maryanne Papanicolaou
September 28, 2018
Oh! This is a beautifully written book, so sad but ultimately uplifting. Eleanor's character has so many dimensions and to walk the journey together with her is both heartbreaking and joyful. She meets some wonderful characters on her journey. I listened to the audiobook - it was beautifully read and brought alive the Glasgow setting. I would highly recommend it.
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About the author

Gail Honeymanā€™s debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, won the Costa First Novel Award 2017, the British Book Awards Book of the Year and the Specsavers National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year.

Since publication, translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide, Reese Witherspoon has optioned it for film and it was chosen as one of the Observerā€™s Debuts of the Year for 2017. Gail was also awarded the Scottish Book Trustā€™s Next Chapter Award in 2014, and has been longlisted for BBC Radio 4ā€™s Opening Lines and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.

Gail lives in Glasgow.

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