Max Sarin

graphic fiction series (issues 49-52): follows three friends through British Uni and after.

Chapter 49: Esther struggles to write her dissertation while home for Easter break and runs into old boyfriend Boyce at a pub. 50: back at Sheffield, McGraw's pub cricket team gets sick right before a championship match and Susan volunteers herself and 7 more players to fill in; Daisy is really good but is distracted by a pretty player on the opposing team; they manage to win but McGraw receives bad news when he gets home -- his dad has died. 51: Esther wins an essay contest with a 2000-pound prize; Susan worries about how McGraw is coping, or not coping; Esther uses her winnings to rent a cottage in the country near Bamford to help him (Ed and Nina also come along), where she tries out a new look and is pleased to find out she's got a job interview for a bank job. 52: Esther stays with her friend Shelley in London where she interviews for the job, but decides it's not to her liking; meanshile, Susan and Daisy enjoy a spa day. Esther wants to help Shelley get into the publishing business, so they attend a party hosted by her former professor to network; in Sheffield, Kieran, Mungo and Coralie are plotting something?… (mehr)

As entertaining as Susan, Daisy and Esther were at the beginning of their college journey, they have only gotten better with age. These chapters relate their further forays into adulthood, as Susan and Daisy prepare to move in with their significant others, and Esther finds herself adrift, roommateless, and possibly friendless. But true friendship conquers all once again, and the girls must face reality when they are handed some stark truths from the mouths of babes. I anticipate these silly girls (who despite all appearances to the contrary have solid feet and level heads) will continue to entertain as they enter their third and final year of university.… (mehr)