Episode 1

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes each day, eats the same lunch at work, and buys two bottles of vodka to drink each weekend. She is fine, completely fine. But one simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has carefully built around herself.

Gail Honeyman's heart-warming and heart-breaking debut novel.

Eleanor thinks she's found love, in the shape of local singer Johnnie Lomond. But some appearance-related improvements are needed urgently...

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Read by Tracy Wiles.

Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017.