Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine has been showing up everywhere, it won the costa first novel award and I haven’t heard anything negative about it, which I can now understand. Gail Honeyman manages to combine a whole array of feelings and themes into a single, coherent novel. It has parts which made me cry and parts that made me laugh out loud. I encountered all of my favorite aspects of chick-lit, which I used to read a lot of, but this has so much more in addition, which makes it more like a piece of acclaimed fiction than ‘just’ women’s literature (though that can be brilliant as well). I’m not sure I’m explaining myself very well, but all you need to know is that Honeyman has incredible skill in writing prose that hooks the reader and creating realistic, many sided characters and also she’s not afraid to tackle difficult subjects. It´s best to go into this blindly and just give Eleanor Oliphant a try. She’s someone you’ll want to get to know.