KS5/Adult LRC Book Recommendation - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman


Winner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2018
Winner of the 2017 Costa Book Awards First Novel Award
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018
Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018

Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live.
She leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day and eats the same meal deal for lunch every day. 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 - whilst 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?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

June #23 Online Library Newsletter

Image
  The OPHS Library Online Newsletter June 2023  #23 Welcome to our Online Monthly Library Newsletter Every month, in our Library Newsletter, we will have reviews on wonderful books that we have in our Library, snippets of new books on the horizon, interesting information about lovely Authors and also books-to-movies information. There will be links to access upcoming books that are in The Library and lots of book information that you will enjoy.  We will have competitions, winner announcements, links to short stories and poems and other interesting literacy information all in one Newsletter!   If you would like to add a contribution to our next Newsletter (July issue), such as:  What is your favourite book from our Library?  What were your favourite and/or worst books that you have ever read?  Would you like to send in a book review and/or a literacy picture? Can you think of anything else that would look great in our newsletter?  Then please email: ltaylor@oakspark.redbridge.sch.uk St
Read more

The OPHS Online Library Newsletter - December 2023 #29

Image
The OPHS Online Library Newsletter December 2023  #29 Welcome to our  Online Monthly Library Newsletter Every month, in our Online Library Newsletter, we have reviews on wonderful books that we have in our Library, snippets of new books on the horizon and interesting information about lovely Authors and books-to-movies information. There will be links to access upcoming books that are in The Library and lots of book information that you will enjoy.  We will have competitions, winner announcements, links to short stories and poems and other interesting literacy information all in one Newsletter!   If you would like to add a contribution to our next Newsletter (January issue), such as:  What is your favourite book from our Library?  What were your favourite and/or worst books that you have ever read?  Would you like to send in a book review and/or a literacy picture? Can you think of anything else that would look great in our newsletter?  Then please email: ltaylor@oakspark.redbridge.sch
Read more

Yoto Carnegie Medal Longlists 2024

Image
  The 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing longlist is (alphabetical by author surname):   The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander (Andersen Press) The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell (Usborne) Away with Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger) The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll, illustrated by Lauren Child (Simon & Schuster) The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner (Otter-Barry Books) Choose Love by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Petr Horáček (Graffeg) Electric Life by Rachel Delahaye (Troika Books) Until the Road Ends by Phil Earle (Andersen Press) Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner (Firefly Press) Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher (Bonnier Books UK) Wild Song by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling Books) Boy Like Me by Simon James Green (Scholastic) Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press) Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore (Bonnier Books UK) The Swifts by Beth Lincoln, illustrated by Claire Powell (Penguin) Dogs of the Deadland by
Read more