Debbie D. (debbiemd) reviewed on 11/27/2018

Eleanor Oliphant is actually completely not fine. She is 30, socially awkward, quirky, odd, has no friends and is lonely. She needs vodka to get through the weekend before she can go back to her routine and boring office job. She also has her weekly phone conversations with her mom who is MEAN. Then we begin to find out more about her background - she has a scar on her face, her mom is really mean, she bounced around foster homes as a child, she was in an abusive relationship. And there is something else that her memory has suppressed. something so terrible that she is emotionally scarred. Really emotionally scarred. But while the author slowly gives us this background, Eleanor also finally makes a friend. Her first ever. And she slowly starts to recover. First a really bad fall and then her friend begins to help her. We finally learn the whole story and it is sad but there is also hope for her future. Loved the characters in this book, both Eleanor, her friend Raymond and all the others.

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