Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a novel set in Glasgow, Scotland and has won several awards in the United Kingdom. The book is even going to be made into a movie. The author is first time novelist Gail Honeyman. Eleanor is the main character and the narrator in this story about a young woman working in an office as an accountant. Eleanor is a loner and a social misfit. She is blunt and brutally honest. Her life consists of following a rigid schedule of work and food and sleep. She shops on Friday evenings for the week. She buys a pizza every Friday and a bottle of wine plus two jugs of vodka which she drinks over the weekend. Obviously Eleanor is not completely fine. Her life is not going well at all. One day she is leaving the office with a coworker named Raymond and they see a man collapse on the street. Raymond insists they help the man by calling an ambulance and going to the hospital with him. This is the moment when Eleanor's life changes for the better. With time and Raymond's help, Eleanor gradually moves closer to being fine. I loved this book because it had just the right balance of sad and funny.
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