When this book started off slow, I feared that I would not enjoy this book as much as everyone else. Recently, I have added more and more adult books into my reading and have enjoyed many books that I discovered through social media. I decided to pick up this book at my local library after hearing nothing but positive reviews online. Soon, Eleanor must confront her painful past to create a better future. Eleanor’s isolated life becomes extremely interrupted when she helps save an older man with the help of a colleague. This is not a sad book, but neither is it a happy one, what it is is interesting from start to finish and so like real life, it makes you question your very existence, the way you treat other people and the small things that seemingly mean nothing but can really turn someone’s life around for the better.I am not completely fine after reading this book (in a good way!).Įleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman follows Eleanor, a young woman who struggles to relate with those around her. There’s plenty of clues along the way and it all comes together in the end but getting there is done in such a way that we watch Eleanor unfold like a crushed flower still desperately trying to open. Eleanor was, despite her oddities extremely likeable and it was all to easy to empathise with her situation while desperately trying to work out how she got there.

This story held me, it drew me in and kept me there and I couldn’t pull myself away until I’d finished it. She has no friends and her only conversation is with her ‘mummy’ every week on a Wednesday.

Eleanor lives a life which basically involves working in an office, eating a meal deal for lunch each day, listening to The Archers and reading books about anything. My, my, my am I glad I did! Įleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the debut novel from Gail Honeyman and the main character Eleanor Oliphant is best described as a mix between Jane Eyre and Sheldon Cooper. Then Netgalley sent me an email about it and I thought why the heck not? Let’s see what everyone’s raving about. Just something about it, maybe I was judging a book by its cover (naughty) but I really didn’t fancy it. I kept seeing this book popping up everywhere but for some reason, potentially the title it gave me the feeling it was going to be a children’s book, even though I actually knew it wasn’t one. ‘There are days when I feel so lightly connected to the earth that the threads that tether me to the planet are gossamer thin, spun sugar.’

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