Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. She lacks social skills and tends to spout off facts to people just having conversations. Nothing is missing in her carefully scheduled life of avoiding social interactions.

She likes her routine. Every Friday, she buys pizza and vodka. Every Wednesday, she talks to her mother. Those are never very good for Eleanor. Her mother is mean and angry and leaves her feeling less than. Something happened to Eleanor when she was a child that left her with a scar on her face and moving from foster home to foster home. Does she remember it all or is it her coping mechanism?

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

“Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine” is the smart, warm and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes that the only way to survive is to open your heart.

The book is being made into a Hollywood movie.(SD-Agencies)