“Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” - Gail Honeyman

 🐈 This novel is like an off-kilter Bridget Jones with deep undercurrents; its overarching theme is one of survival and learning to thrive despite the most horrifying parent-child relationships I’ve come across.  

🐈 If you haven’t read this one, I highly recommend adding it to your TBR. This may seem like strange advice, but hear me out: the audiobook truly captures every eye-widening observation and cringeworthy moment that Eleanor hurtles into. However. This is where my advice seems odd. I myself had to switch to the ebook about halfway in because I couldn’t cope with Eleanor - I mean this in the best way possible! 

🐈 Eleanor vacillates wildly between extreme practicality and whimsy. We may chuckle at her quirky eccentricities but the humor is tempered by the knowledge that Eleanor is an adult who has never known friendship or love.

🐈Honeyman is a sharp and witty writer. Some of Eleanor’s observations remind me of Marcellus from “Remarkably Bright Creatures”; in many ways, she is also a creature in a foreign land.