Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
She is clearly not completely fine. Honeyman builds her world with such care that when it cracks open you feel it happening to you.
Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman's 2017 debut novel follows Eleanor Oliphant, a rigidly routine-bound woman who works in a Glasgow office and fills her weekends with frozen pizza and vodka. She has enormous scars on her face and a mother who calls every Wednesday. She has been fine for nine years. When a kind IT technician named Raymond befriends her and they together help an elderly man who has collapsed in the street, Eleanor's carefully constructed isolation begins to dissolve. The past she has managed not to examine begins to surface. The novel won the Costa First Novel Award and was an instant bestseller in multiple countries.
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"These days, loneliness is the new cancer — a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself.
"Gail Honeyman · Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Honeyman wrote the novel while working full time as a consultant in Glasgow. She submitted it to a writing competition while it was still unfinished and was longlisted. She finished it and it sold immediately.
Reese Witherspoon selected it for her book club before publication, which transformed its commercial prospects. The novel debuted at number one in the UK and US and spent over a year on the bestseller list.