Not because it doesn’t reflect reality, or that I expect all women in my fiction to be beautiful, empowered and shagging all the men, but because I think it limits story-telling. I’m not a massive fan of the lonely, unloved, spinster-ish woman trope. If they’d only nominated the 73 other books I’ve bought and haven’t gotten around to reading. The Costa judges have therefore done me the favour of nominating it. Of course, that didn’t bloody well happen, did it. This is a book I bought when it came out planning to read it almost immediately. And now for my second Costa ‘Best Debut’ novel: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
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