Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman Blurb:Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink ever weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled existence. Except, sometimes, everything...My ReviewI LOVED this book. The story line was simple which concerned me at first, but then I got sucked into Eleanor's character and how it develops and I couldn't stop reading. At first I found her a little irritating, although definitely amusing and a refreshing character since she's so different from most heroines you read about, but within a few chapters I was definitely in her corner and ready to fight people on her behalf! There's quite a lot of speculation as to whether Eleanor is supposed to be autistic; I'm not an expert by any way, but with my limited experience, I feel like she's not, she's just traumatised and trying to survive the best way she knows how and anyway, even if she is supposed to be autistic, there are different types and degrees of autism, it's not the same for everyone which I feel like it's important for people to know... I really enjoyed watching Eleanor and Raymond's relationship grown and mature and how her feelings for him changed throughout the book. It felt very real, as apposed to love at first sight. I also loved her relationship with her cat, Glen; it was so relatable. Animals really are a wonderful cure for loneliness and depression, though I'm more of a dog person myself! :-) The only part I had fault with was the end. I don't want to give anything away, because it's a bit of a twist and I definitely wasn't expecting it, but although I felt like it was very clever and I liked it in a way, I also felt like it needed more explanation and exploring. Still, definitely an awesome, funny, unique book that I'd recommend to pretty much anyone.My favourite quotes from 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine':'I'm confident that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It's not as though I'm expecting a reply.' 'If he book has one failing, it's that there is insufficient mention of Pilot. You can't have too much dog in a book.' '...on some days, the very darkest days, knowing that the plant would die if I didn't water it was the only thing that forced me up out of bed.' 'If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.' 'Mummy's way was wrong, I knew that. But no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, and although I'd tried my best over the years, I simply didn't know how to make things better.' '... there must be some people for whom difficult behaviour wasn't a reason to end their relationship with you.' 'When you're struggling to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people's...'