Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. 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 is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
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Thirty-year-old Eleanor Oliphant lives alone in Glasgow with a rigid routine and a Wednesday-night call from Mummy. A small act of kindness involving a fallen pensioner and a coworker named Raymond changes everything.
Yes. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine won the 2017 Costa First Novel Award and was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. It was a major commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic.
Yes. A film adaptation has been in development with Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine producing. As of 2025, the project remains in development with no confirmed release date.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.