Eleanor Oliphant Is Fully Fantastic by Gail Honeyman
My score: 4 of 5 stars
Eleanor Oliphant Is Fully Fantastic is a recent story with a powerful psychological well being theme.
Eleanor is an accounts administrator in a small graphic design firm. She is environment friendly and does her job properly, however her life is a lonely one with no pals. She sees nobody from Friday night till Monday morning. A weekly dialog along with her abusive mom deepens her sense of isolation and Eleanor commonly drinks bottles of vodka to assist her overlook her previous.
When laptop technician Raymond provides a tentative hand of friendship, Eleanor surprises herself by accepting. This coincides along with her infatuation for a musician – abruptly her life is altering.
I’m extraordinarily late attending to this ebook which was first printed in 2017. It jogged my memory of different psychological well being books like The Rosie Undertaking and Elizabeth Is Lacking. Loneliness is usually missed or misinterpreted and people are hard-wired to need companionship in some kind or different, be it with different people or animals.
I loved this story and the unravelling of Eleanor’s inside psyche, and the thriller surrounding her. I’m glad that Raymond selected to face by her, whereas the result was stuffed with hope and prospects – an excellent place to finish.
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E book description:
Nobody’s ever informed Eleanor that life ought to be higher than positive.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with acceptable social abilities and tends to say precisely what she’s pondering. Nothing is lacking in her rigorously timetabled lifetime of avoiding social interactions, the place weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and telephone chats with Mummy.
However every thing modifications when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT man from her workplace. When she and Raymond collectively save Sammy, an aged gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three turn out to be the sorts of pals who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they’ve every been dwelling. And it’s Raymond’s massive coronary heart that may in the end assist Eleanor discover the best way to restore her personal profoundly broken one.
Quickly to be a significant movement image produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Fully Fantastic is the sensible, heat, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
