A review by lydiainspace
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle

5.0

This novel is aimed straight at the teenage heart, and written with a nuance and realistic grip on teen issues that few comics get right. Searle touches on romance, body image and eating, academics, anxiety, art, sexuality, and gender through organic story and character growth, without making her audience feel that she's trying to stuff too many topics in one book. Instead, this novel is full and complex because real young people are full and complex, and their interactions even more so. I recommend this to any comic lover, and to any young person struggling with the very real challenges of loving their friends and loving themselves.