A review by senexosaweffers
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
5.0
The first thing you’re likely to see when you pick this book up is a snippet from Reese Witherspoon: “Beautifully written and incredibly funny.”
She’s right; Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is both of those things. It’s also much more than that, though. It’s heartbreaking, inspiring, strange, infuriating . . . It’s a lot of things.
Eleanor takes things pretty literally, kind of like Amelia Bedelia, although the similarities stop there. She follows a strict routine and drinks to keep her emotions at bay. She has trouble interacting with other people and can be a bit hypocritical. She fixates on things. But her life has been far from easy, and Honeyman does a lovely job of slowly letting us see into Eleanor’s past as she finally begins to heal.
She’s right; Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is both of those things. It’s also much more than that, though. It’s heartbreaking, inspiring, strange, infuriating . . . It’s a lot of things.
Eleanor takes things pretty literally, kind of like Amelia Bedelia, although the similarities stop there. She follows a strict routine and drinks to keep her emotions at bay. She has trouble interacting with other people and can be a bit hypocritical. She fixates on things. But her life has been far from easy, and Honeyman does a lovely job of slowly letting us see into Eleanor’s past as she finally begins to heal.