她很快樂,她很好,什麼都不缺。說真的,她其實也不怎麼需要朋友。
她覺得自己過得還可以。
這樣就夠了。
……真的嗎?
Eleanor Oliphant過著規律、簡單的生活。她週間上班,週末固定買兩瓶伏特加配披薩。雖然不是有意,她發現自己有時說話太心直口快,所以,那些複雜的社交場合,還是算了吧。獨來獨往又有什麼不好呢。
她的生活過得好像……還可以。不是特別好,但也不是太差。沒有人注意到,她開始囤積止痛藥,同時對一個糟糕的歌手陷入不正常的迷戀。
從來沒有人告訴Eleanor,生活不應該只是「還可以」。
直到有一天,Eleanor和同辦公室的IT男──Raymond,一起幫助了在路邊跌倒的老紳士Sammy,這三個人成了拯救彼此孤寂生活的朋友。Raymond和Sammy帶領Eleanor慢慢走出堅硬的外殼,去尋找勇氣,面對埋藏在她過去的可怕傷痕……。
如果你喜歡《明天別再來敲門》(A Man Called Ove),那麼你一定會愛上藏在無聊的外表下,可愛、機智、幽默又迷人的Eleanor。即使背負著令人心碎的過去,在內心深處,她仍然保有愛人與被愛的能力。
新人作家Gail Honeyman以溫暖、清新的文字,寫下一個戰勝創傷的故事。透過Eleanor胡思亂想、有點滑稽又充滿魅力的內心獨白,我們看見一個與傷痛共存的靈魂,努力以自己的方式生存下去,隨著她一層一層撥開自己的內心,我們也跟著她一起踏上一場勇敢的旅程。
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"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too " --Reese Witherspoon
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. 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 kinds of friends who rescue one another 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.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting 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 your heart.