Thoughts: Unpopular opinion: I didn’t love this as much as everyone else did. It felt like the entire first half of the book didn’t connect to the second and I didn’t understand why so much time was spent on certain topics. That being said, I did enjoy the second half and the story development we saw there, but for me the first half was so hard to get through that I just can’t give it more than 3 stars.
Summary: 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.