Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018
Pages: 352
Rating: Highly Recommend
Synopsis: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. 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.But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. 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. And it's Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Review: This was on my to-read list forever. I heard so many good things about, with a few of the "I just didn't get it" reviews thrown in. Put me in the "loved it" camp.
Initially Eleanor made me feel uncomfortable and "squirmy," but she quickly became charming and endearing. Her internal dialogue was so good, laugh out loud funny at times.
There's a twist at the end I didn't see coming too, and I'm not sure how I felt about it. Overall, I give this book 4 3/4 stars out of 5.
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