书名：Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine依莲娜奥丽芬很好
作者：Gail Honeyman
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2018
语种：英文
ISBN：9780008172145
商品尺寸：12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：400 （以实物为准）
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine《依莲娜·奥丽芬很好》是英国女性新人作家盖尔·赫尼曼的处女作，曾获得柯斯达文学新作奖，且这部作品将由美国导演、演员瑞茜·威瑟斯彭（Reese Witherspoon）改编为电影。这本书非常贴近生活，书中主人公的声音十分动人，读者们能够深有共鸣地体会到她那份强烈的孤独感。因此，她寻找救赎的尝试和旅程才变得那样感人至深。

•Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2017
•Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
•No.1 Sunday Times bestseller
•Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon
‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes
Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive – but not how to live

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. 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.
Change can be good. Change can be bad. But surely any change is better than… fine?

Review
‘A truly original literary creation: funny, touching and unpredictable. Her journey out of the shadows is expertly woven and absolutely gripping’ --Jojo Moyes

‘Original [and] unexpectedly funny’ --SUNDAY TIMES

‘As perceptive and wise as it is funny and endearing… Warm, funny and thought-provoking’ --OBSERVER

‘A narrative full of quiet warmth and deep and unspoken sadness… Wonderful and joyful’
--Jenny Colgan, GUARDIAN

‘Unforgettable, brilliant, funny and life-affirming’ --Wendy Holden, DAILY MAIL

‘I adored it. Skilled, perceptive, Eleanor's world will feel familiar to you from the very first page. An outstanding debut!’ --Joanna Cannon

‘Hugely original, a funny and sad tale of a survivor who tackles the challenges of emotional reconnection with grave courage. Unmissable.’ --SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘A truly original voice and so good on loneliness: I sobbed and sobbed’ --Cathy Rentzenbrink

‘An outstanding debut about loneliness and the power of a little kindness’
--MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘So powerful – I completely loved Eleanor Oliphant’ --Fiona Barton

‘An absolute joy, laugh-out-loud funny but deeply moving’ --DAILY EXPRESS

‘Heartbreaking’ --Bryony Gordon

‘Deft, compassionate and moving’ --Paula McLain

‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ --Nina Stibbe

‘Heartbreaking and heartwarming’ --STYLIST

‘Brave, smart and funny… the most refreshing and heartwarming debut I’ve read in some time’ --YORKSHIRE POST

‘Moving, funny and devastating’ --THE HERALD

‘Quirky, witty and absorbing’ --HEAT

‘Warm and funny, moving and deeply original, Eleanor Oliphant is completely marvellous’ --Gavin Extence

‘A beautiful and delicate balance between funny and heartbreaking… restores your faith in humanity’ --RED

‘You’ll laugh and cry reading this fine debut’ --PRIMA

‘Impeccable’ --Dawn O’Porter

‘Delightful, dark and moving’ --Sarah Pinborough

‘Warm, quirky and fun, with a real poignancy underneath’ --Julie Cohen

‘A stunning debut! I laughed, wept and reflected’ --Lucy Clarke

‘Satisfyingly quirky’ --NEW YORK TIMES
Gail Honeyman’s debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, won the Costa First Novel Award 2017, and has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize. As a work in progress, it was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Since publication, translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide, Reese Witherspoon has optioned it for film and it was chosen as one of the Observer’s Debuts of the Year for 2017. Gail was also awarded the Scottish Book Trust’s Next Chapter Award in 2014, and has been longlisted for BBC Radio 4’s Opening Lines and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Gail lives in Glasgow.
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME what I do — taxi drivers, dental hygienists— I tell them I work in an office. In almost nine years, no one’s ever asked what kind of office, or what sort of job I do there. I can’t decide whether that’s because I fit perfectly with their idea of what an office worker looks like, or whether people hear the phrase work in an office and automatically fill in the blanks themselves — lady doing photocopying, man tapping at a keyboard. I’m not complaining. I’m delighted that I don’t have to get into the fascinating intricacies of accounts receivable with them. When I first started working here, whenever anyone asked, I used to tell them that I worked for a graphic design company, but then they assumed I was a creative type. It became a bit boring to see their faces blank over when I explained that it was back office stuff, that I didn’t get to use the fine-tipped pens and the fancy software.
I’m nearly thirty years old now and I’ve been working here since I was twenty-one. Bob, the owner, took me on not long after the office opened. I suppose he felt sorry for me. I had a degree in Classics and no work experience to speak of, and I turned up for the interview with a black eye, a couple of missing teeth and a broken arm. Maybe he sensed, back then, that I would never aspire to anything more than a poorly paid office job, that 1 would be content to stay with the company and save him the bother of ever having to recruit a replacement. Perhaps he could also tell that I’d never need to take time off to go on honeymoon, or request maternity leave. I don’t know.
It’s definitely a two-tier system in the office; the creatives are the film stars, the rest of us merely supporting artists. You can tell by looking at us which category we fall into. To be fair, part of that is salary-related. The back office staff get paid a pittance, and so we can’t afford much in the way of sharp haircuts and nerdy glasses. Clothes, music, gadgets — although the designers are desperate to be seen as freethinkers with unique ideas, they all adhere to a strict uniform. Graphic design is of no interest to me. I’m a finance clerk. I could be issuing invoices for anything, really: armaments, Rohypnol, coconuts.