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她很快樂，她很好，什麼都不缺。說真的，她其實也不怎麼需要朋友。
她覺得自己過得還可以。
這樣就夠了。
……真的嗎？

　　Eleanor Oliphant過著規律、簡單的生活。她週間上班，週末固定買兩瓶伏特加配披薩。雖然不是有意，她發現自己有時說話太心直口快，所以，那些複雜的社交場合，還是算了吧。獨來獨往又有什麼不好呢。

　　她的生活過得好像……還可以。不是特別好，但也不是太差。沒有人注意到，她開始囤積止痛藥，同時對一個糟糕的歌手陷入不正常的迷戀。

　　從來沒有人告訴Eleanor，生活不應該只是「還可以」。

　　直到有一天，Eleanor和同辦公室的IT男──Raymond，一起幫助了在路邊跌倒的老紳士Sammy，這三個人成了拯救彼此孤寂生活的朋友。Raymond和Sammy帶領Eleanor慢慢走出堅硬的外殼，去尋找勇氣，面對埋藏在她過去的可怕傷痕……。

　　如果你喜歡《明天別再來敲門》(A Man Called Ove)，那麼你一定會愛上藏在無聊的外表下，可愛、機智、幽默又迷人的Eleanor。即使背負著令人心碎的過去，在內心深處，她仍然保有愛人與被愛的能力。

　　新人作家Gail Honeyman以溫暖、清新的文字，寫下一個戰勝創傷的故事。透過Eleanor胡思亂想、有點滑稽又充滿魅力的內心獨白，我們看見一個與傷痛共存的靈魂，努力以自己的方式生存下去，隨著她一層一層撥開自己的內心，我們也跟著她一起踏上一場勇敢的旅程。（文 / 博客來編譯）

    　* 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?

　　`Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Stibbe

　　`Deft, compassionate and moving’ Paula McLain

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