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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

By: Gail Honeyman
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
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Over 3 million copies sold

‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes

‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Stibbe

Winner of Costa First Novel Award, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the National Book Awards Book of the Year

One of the Sunday Times' 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years

Winner of the Audie award for Best Fiction Audiobook 2018

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple 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.

Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything.

One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.

Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?

‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Stibbe

‘Deft, compassionate and moving’ Paula McLain

‘I adored it. Skilled, perceptive, Eleanor's world will feel familiar to you from the very first page. An outstanding debut!’ Joanna Cannon

©2017 Gail Honeyman; Extract of The Lonely City (2016) by Olivia Laing reproduced by permission from Canongate Books Ltd. (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Coming of Age Dark Humour Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Indigenous Creators Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Mental Health Awareness Heartfelt Feel-Good Funny Comedy
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Sad, funny, original with characters that haunt you long after the end of the book. The reader was also superbly understated allowing the book to flow beautifully. Will listen and read this again soon.

Totally Original and Enthralling.

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A nice listen with good characters and an interesting storyline - you kind of figure out where it is going pretty early on but still enjoyable - could imagine it as a TV series actually.

Enjoyable characters

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Eleanor Olyphant is a wonderfully well thought out character, and all characters were written beautifully to interact with Eleanor so we can understand what we need to about her.

While some may find this book slow and drawn out, I found it to be well paced, dropping bread crumbs to propel me forward. I usually only listen to books/podcasts etc on my hour long trip to work & back, but I listened to this at home several evenings because I was so invested in Eleanor.

I think anyone who feels an outcast, has childhood trauma, or has felt loneliness will relate to this book & enjoy even the sad themes.

I think I learned a little about myself reading this.

The narrator is superb & I didn't want to smash my headphones to the ground when she affected a man's voice, like some I hear. I'd listen to her read a statistics text book.

The narrator brought all characters to life

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put off reading this as I am a murder/mystery/thriller fan. But take my advise read it now. A very moving and funny book with characters you will love. Narrator was excellent.
Looking forward to the next novel by this author

Dont hesitate - read it now

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What a brilliant story, wonderful characters and an amazing performance. I could see the characters vividly in my mind. I recommend this to everyone!

Amazing !

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What an honour to be part of the Eleanor Oliphant journey. A beautiful story with a fabulous twist!

Completely fine!

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I listened to this based solely on reading so many rave reviews. I’m an avid reader over decades and this has shot up into my top five of favourite novels. This is going to resonate with me for a long time to come.
Deeply moving yet genuinely humorous. Eleanor Oliphant is a magical character. I initially cringed at her blunt reactions to events but was quickly captured.
I’m in awe of this writer’s talent and the reader did justice to her words.

Wow!

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Starts slightly slowly but gets momentum after an hour or so. Great character development, very unique story, quite funny and an excellent ending.

Great story, well worth it

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A lovely Book about trying something different to change perspectives. Inspirational. Thank you Gail Honeyman

We are all Eleanor

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It was one of the greatest story as well as audible book I have been encountered. The storyline was intriguing, common life events yet portrayed interestingly through the mind of a frugal single young lady. The sarcasm and satire are woven through seamlessly for good laughs.

Touching story and amazing narrating effort

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