Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel [B0570]

2018 PB. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A really, really endearing story about building relationships and the importance of showing up for people that caught me off guard and made me feel lots of things."; "This book is beautifully written - with such understanding of trauma and depression... and the importance of compassion, care, and concern. Told with humor, respect, and insight, it is a must read."; "I liked this book a lot! The main character was funny and it was refreshing to have a character like her. The twist at the ending definitely got me! Deep, touching story"