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100 1 _aHoneyman, Gail
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
264 1 _aLondon :
_bHarper Collins,
_c2017
300 _a386, 7 pages ;
_c21 cm.
520 _a"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. 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 kind of friends who rescue each other 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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
586 _aCosta First Novel Award, Shortlist 2017.
650 0 _aSingle women
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aSocial isolation
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aFriendship
_vFiction.
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