Pollyanna Pollyanna Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook: a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, "Pollyanna Grows Up" (1915). Eleven more "Pollyanna" sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including "Pollyanna Plays the Game" by Colleen L. Reece,
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine of the "moral education of her heroine" and "an uncommonly intelligent and sympathetic novel" Sarah Gilmartin of "The Irish Times" called the title character "one of the most unusual and thought-provoking heroines of recent contemporary fiction". In May 2017 the film rights were optioned by Reese Witherspoon's company Hello Sunshine. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the 2017 debut novel of Gail Honeyman, and the winner of the 2018 Costa Debut Novel Award. It deals with themes of isolation and loneliness. Eleanor Oliphant, the novel's protagonist and narrator, lives in Glasgow and works as a