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 IT guy from her office...
Sen fick jag stryka resten av texten för det stämde inte. Eleanor får för sig att en musiker hon ser uppträda är den rätta för henne och börjar förändra sig för att kunna passa honom, samtidigt träffar hon ovan nämnda Raymond och en äldre herre, Sammy, som de räddar när han blivit sjuk på gatan. Hela hennes liv förändras.
It’s midsummer in the
Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at
midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an
elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring
House, a gallery on the beach.
The party ends in farce when one
the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to
know who he is or where he’s come from. The following day the
Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is
convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this
belief when Roddy, Bella’s musician nephew, is murdered, too.
But
the detective’s relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his
judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day
and nothing is quite as it seems.
