While Gail Honeyman was writing her debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress. Translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide, Reese Witherspoon bought the film rights, 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. She lives in Glasgow.
The Sunday Times bestseller
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon
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?
连续读了几本国外的畅销书,好像已经对矫揉造作的故事失去了所有的兴趣。 开篇总是故意撒下谜团,最后的结局总是草率地揭露背后浅显的原因。笔墨总是浪费,除了对话让人看了不至于睡觉,大篇幅无聊的内心独白,景物描写像食之无味的KFC快餐。 女主三十岁,其命运看起来颇为凄惨...
评分城市太大,让人孤独 有朋友说,他在上海一个人住时最孤独的一次体验是:有一次他生病发烧,吃了药昏昏沉沉睡着了,半夜感到一阵口渴,只能自己艰难地爬起来给自己倒杯水,结果水壶是空的,然后他一边烧水,一边望着窗外黑暗的夜色,不知道自己活着究竟是为了什么。 在电影《无...
评分看了很多评论,并且跟身边同样看过这本书(大部分是美国人,提出这一点是因为我在思考是不是有文化差异)的朋友讨论过后,我发现了一个令我惊讶并且有点难以理解的事实:原来大部分人都觉得Eleanor是一个很不讨人喜欢的人,即便是在阅读的过程里,她们也会觉得这个角色本身虽然...
评分 评分分给幽默和真实不给立意
评分@Cuba
评分一本好书不读到最后一页你永远不知道它对你意味着什么。“我的密码?当然了,就“Ignis aurum probat”三个词,意思是“真金不怕火炼”,而这个句子的后半段是“逆境考验勇者”,说得真好。这个密码强度颇高。”
评分Who is Eleanor?I am Eleanor.I am completely fine.
评分Goodbye Mummy!
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