Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman HarperCollins Publishers 2017 386 Pages Norman Bates of Psycho infamy had to live with the malign specter of “Mother” that drove him to murder. The eponymous Eleanor in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine similarly labors under the ghost of poisonously murderous “Mummy” – but copes rather better than poor Norman ever did. At least, Eleanor never kills anyone. An abortive suicide attempt fortuitously interrupted doesn't count. Key to her survival (and relative sanity) are daily routines rigidly followed, her single-minded professionalism in an underpaid and thankless job as a finance administration assistant for a graphic arts agency and vodka-fueled weekends before the TV set in her Glasgow council flat. The British welfare state has much to commend it; one gets the feeling that had first-time author Gail Hon