Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe novel focuses on Eleanor Oliphant, a social misfit with a traumatic past who becomes enamoured of a singer, with whom she believes she is destined to be. It deals with themes of isolation and loneliness, and depicts Eleanor's transformation journey towards a fuller understanding of self and life.

Rives has sensitively updated Robert Graves's now classic translation

published by Atria Books on August 2

and associations

has just launched from the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre in Syldavia

Flora dies on All Souls' Day

Almost a century later in London

A bombshell bookworm

But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites

at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing

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rather than the other way around

In this new translation the Persian scholar Peter Avery and the poet John Heath-Stubbs have recaptured the sceptical and unorthodox spirit of the Persian text by giving as literal an English version of the original verse as possible