![]() ![]() I had two false starts, finding it hard to muster the interest to get beyond a bikini wax appointment at the start. ![]() When I saw it at a bargain bookshop, I thought I'd take my chance. Since then, it's become a phenomenon, with must-read recommendations from all sorts of people. I thought, 'Eleanor's obviously not fine at all,' and walked past. ![]() The title didn't grab me when I first saw it. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. ![]() 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. 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.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. ![]()
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