Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Eleanor Oliphant is polite, intelligent and methodical. But her ignorance of social norms is disconcerting. The crossword-loving office loner is the unreliable narrator of Gail Honeyman's Costa-winning debut novel and it is soon painfully obvious that everything is not completely fine. It takes a friendly IT department colleague to set Oliphant down the road to discuss the (forgive my pun) elephant in the room. This is a heartwarming novel despite its sombre themes and much of Honeyman's humour comes from her oblivious protagonist's descriptions of commonplace 21st-century behaviour (Cue LOLs and names written on coffee chain cups). Looking forward to watching the Hollywood movie adaptation produced by Reese Witherspoon.
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