Book guide
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
An eccentric loner’s carefully controlled life begins to thaw after an unexpected friendship changes everything.
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About Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- trauma
- mental illness
- loneliness
- alcoholism
- suicide attempt
- suicidal ideation
- domestic abuse
- child abuse
- fire
- death of family member
- grief
- emotional abuse
- sexual abuse/rape discussed
- animal cruelty
