Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. Really, she is. She goes to work, eats the same meal deal, drinks two bottles of vodka on a Friday night and wakes up on a Monday ready to do it all again. But one day, by complete coincidence, she meets Raymond, a middle-aged tech support worker who introduces her to new things, and forces her to confront things that she has tried very hard to forget...
But this is not a love story. It is a story primarily about loneliness, and about the best and worst that humankind has to offer.
This was an amazing story, but it took me a while to get into it. For the first third or so, I didn't really get where it was going, I didn't get the point. But after that, it became very clear very quickly, and now it has become one of those books that I will continue to think about, even though I've finished it.
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is just one of those feel-good books that will stay with you for ages after you finish reading it.
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