Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Eleanor Oliphant lives a secluded life due to her lack of social graces and crippling self-esteem and anxiety issues. She works at a graphic design firm in the finance department and spends the rest of her time at home, usually drinking. Her social life consists of a phone call with her mummy every week. Then one day she goes to a concert, for which she won tickets in a raffle, and falls in love at first sight with a musician. Eleanor decides to make some changes to herself as part of a plan to get her dream man. Meanwhile, a new hire in the IT department of her company, Raymond, strikes up a friendship with Eleanor. As things change for Eleanor she is forced to confront the past and confront the real reason for her recent desire for more.

 While Gail Honeyman was writing her debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, it was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress. It has sold to almost thirty territories worldwide, won the Costa First Novel Award and was chosen as one of the Observer's Debuts of the Year for 2017.

Praises:

“A charmer. . . satisfyingly quirky.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Simultaneously hilarious and heartbre