[2] Now considered to be one of the most outstanding authors of contemporary Danish literature, since her novel This Should be Written in the Present Tense was published in English in 2014, she has also been acclaimed by American and British reviewers.

In 2002, her Forestillingen om et ukompliceret liv med en mand (The Idea of an Uncomplicated Life with a Man) is centred on the difficulties a housewife has experienced with her lover, a writer, whom she discovers dead at the beginning of the book.

[3] Helle's most successful novel to date has been Rødby-Puttgarden (2005) in which two sisters working in the perfume sales section of the ferry from Denmark to Germany recall the story of their dead mother.

[3] Dette burde skrives i nutid (This Should be Written in the Present Tense) published in 2011 is the first work in which Helle introduces incidents from her own life in that the main character, Dorte Hansen, has a background that is quite similar to her own.

[4] Published in 2014, Helle's most recent novel Hvis det er (If You Want) presents a chance encounter between two joggers who meet in the woods somewhere in Jutland.

[1][5] Commenting on This Should Be Written in the Present Tense in the New York Times, Jonathan Russell Clark refers to Helle's "enchanting gifts as a storyteller" while emphasising the work's compelling immediacy.

Writing in Berlingske, Peter Krogh Hansen gives Hvis det er six out of six stars, qualifying the author as "one of the very, very best" in contemporary Danish literature.