Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

In a slight departure, the runner-up from the June book poll is now the July book, and the July book poll winner is now the August book, for two reasons: The selected title for August is long and still has a 14 week wait at the library, so hopefully pushing it back by one month will give everyone enough time to get it and read it!

Summary of Eleanor Oliphant from Goodreads:

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. 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 kinds of friends who rescue one another 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.