Esther's Notebooks 2

Tales from my eleven-year-old life

Translated by Sam Taylor

Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and then he works it up into a comic strip.

This book consists of 52 of those strips, telling between them the story of a year in the life of this sharp, spirited and funny child. The result is a moving, insightful and utterly addictive glimpse into the real lives of children growing up in today's world.

'Riad Sattouf is one of the great creators of our time' — Alain de Botton 'The portrait of an era, drawn with a smile' — L'Express