Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.
I didn't know what to expect of this book. I just thought that the main character was misanthropic. But then, I realized that Eleanor was probably on the spectrum and had suffered terrible abuse in her childhood. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Raymond, the IT guy who comes to fix her computer. What does she think of him ? "A word sprang to mind: porcine".
