"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one"--
"세상사에 서툴고 가족도 친구도 없이 완벽하게 혼자 삶을 꾸려나가며 '나는 혼자로 충분한 독립체' 라고 생각하는 괴짜 외톨이 엘리너 올리펀트. 어린 시절에 겪은 비극으로 인해 얼굴과 심장에 흉터를 안고 주위에 높이 벽을 세운 채 살아가던 엘리너의 삶은, 어느 날 엘리너가 한 밴드 보컬에게 한눈에 반하면서, 그리고 회사 동료 레이먼드와 함께 길에서 쓰러진 노인을 도와주면서 완전히 달라지기 시작한다. 다정한 온기가 전하는 뭉클한 감동과 기분좋은 유쾌함이 가득한 소설."--