Eleanor Oliphant is not quite like the others. It could even be said to be bizarre. But touching and endearing from the first pages. For, in short, Eleanor is not a canon of beauty, mocks madly in good manners, does not try to make laugh, let alone to please.

Featuring an above-average IQ and an unparalleled "ge" culture, she says things as she thinks them, without blush and bluntly. Scrupulously conforming to the motto "Better to be alone than badly accompanied," Eleanor flees from the others, and her social life comes down to phone calls with "Mother." Yes, but life is often more imaginative than we are. Eleanor falls in love with the singer of a band of fashionable music. And US ? We are jubilant.

For then begins for the protagonist a true marathon of transformation in order to conquer the man of his dreams. Behind a cold and haughty appearance, but also touching and fragile, Eleanor has all of the anti-heroin, and it does good! But we prefer to warn you: if you expect a novel stitched with white thread where the girl hurts in her skin metamorphoses to seduce her fantasy, the object of her desires, you may well be surprised ... because, as in life, the path that leads Eleanor to the change, obliging him to face his demons and his faults, is more important than the end result.

A little literary jewel, decomplexing, unpredictable, rejoicing and full of optimism, for, as the title says: Eleanor goes very well.

Eleanor Oliphant is doing very well , from Gail Honeyman, River Editions.

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