The unforgettable Sunday Times bestselling literary fiction novel, the perfect summer holiday read 2025

'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

'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

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?

'Moving, funny and devastating' The Herald

'Unforgettable, brilliant, funny and life-affirming' Daily Mail

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

Autorentext

Gail Honeyman's debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, won the Costa First Novel Award 2017, and has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize.

As a work in progress, it was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Since publication, translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide and Reese Witherspoon has optioned it for film.

Gail lives in Glasgow.

Klappentext

`Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes

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

Zusammenfassung

• Winner of the Costa First Novel Award No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and No.1 New York Times bestseller Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon `Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes