A review by westonculture
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

4.0

When I began reading Eleanor Oliphant, I was wondering why everyone had been raving about it. It seemed like a shameless mashup of A Man Called Ove (with a grumpy young woman) and The Rosie Project (grumpy young woman with extreme social awks). I was almost ready to give up at 50 pages when Honeyman drops in a twisty backstory and from there I just zoomed through the rest of the book, curious to find out more about our Eleanor. I really enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant. There's so much there - friendship, family, abuse, mental health, loneliness, the performance of normative femininity. It's funny, sharp and more than completely fine.