Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Ā· HarperCollins Ā· Narrated by Cathleen McCarron
4.7
92 reviews
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Over 3 million copies sold

ā€˜Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes

ā€˜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?

ā€˜Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Stibbe

ā€˜Deft, compassionate and moving’ Paula McLain

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

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4.7
92 reviews
Stephen
April 7, 2025
A beautiful reflection of Glaswegian/Scottish community - Eleanor Oliphant is a complicated, yet immersively relatable soul. I've never wanted a protagonist to overcome and succeed so much. Instantly one of my all-time favourite books.
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Su Hani
September 6, 2023
loved it! i find myself relating to some of her social struggles. themes of loneliness and depression. but by the end of it, i just couldnt stop smiling. such a feel good story! I'm rooting for you Eleanor!
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Samantha Brash
May 16, 2023
Brilliant, that's all I need to say. Captivating, witty, heart warming and the audio book reader's voice was perfect for the story.
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About the author

Gail Honeyman’s debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, won the Costa First Novel Award 2017, the British Book Awards Book of the Year and the Specsavers National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year.

Since publication, translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide, Reese Witherspoon has optioned it for film and it was chosen as one of the Observer’s Debuts of the Year for 2017. Gail was also awarded the Scottish Book Trust’s Next Chapter Award in 2014, and has been longlisted for BBC Radio 4’s Opening Lines and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.

Gail lives in Glasgow.

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