'An unexpectedly funny and lucid novel, memorable for its heroine's detached take on social norms' - The Sunday Times Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780008172145 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 350 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Challenging the stigmas that exist around loneliness in contemporary society, it is a gentle reminder of those we too easily overlook and how a life can be changed by small acts of kindness. By turns laugh-aloud funny and deeply poignant, it is a book that champions everyday courage and the importance of friendship in a world where people are increasingly isolated.

Widely hailed as the fiction debut of 2017, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a triumph of deft observation of everyday life. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - whilst searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life.Ĭhange can be good. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. I can’t decide whether that’s because I fit perfectly with their idea of what an office worker looks like, or whether people hear the phrase work in an office and automatically fill in the blanks themselves – lady doing photocopying, man tapping at keyboard.Įleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live In almost nine years, no one’s ever asked what kind of office, or what sort of job I do there. When people ask me what I do – taxi drivers, dental hygienists – I tell them I work in an office.

Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018

Winner of the 2017 Costa Book Awards First Novel Award Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for February 2018 Winner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2018

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