Synopses & Reviews
Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster committed the ultimate suburban sin: bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Their best friend, Becca Winsberg, took a more traditional path, but she's got dreams of her own. Now the year is half-way through and their dreams seem within reach. Well, almost.
Harper has managed to gain the freshman fifteen without ever being a freshman. Now, after months of procrastination and an almost-affair with her former English teacher, she's determined to finally write the "Next Great American Novel." Even if she has to lock herself in her basement bathroom to do it.
Sophie is living the good life in a Beverly Hills guesthouse. But when circumstances change, and she's forced to crash on her frenemy Sam's couch, bad auditions are the least of her troubles.
Kate is doing aid work in Ethiopia, where she encounters family ghosts - along with Darby, the handsome but antagonistic Princetonian who assumes she's a dizzy blonde. Kate is out to prove Darby wrong... and reunite two sisters in the process.
And when Becca finally emerges from her wintry lovers' nest, it seems her relationship with Stuart isn't as cozy as she thought.
Even if the year that's changing everything has sometimes been less than dreamy, these four best friends will always have each other.
Synopsis
Best friends Harper Waddle, Sophie Bushell, and Kate Foster committed the ultimate suburban sin: bailing on college to pursue their dreams. Middlebury-bound Becca Winsberg was convinced her friends had gone insane until they reminded her she just might have a dream of her own.
Now the year is half-way through and their dreams seem within reach. Well, almost. Harper has managed to gain the freshman fifteen without ever being a freshman, though locked in her basement bathroom she finds inspiration and finally seems to be writing from the heart. Sophie is forced to leave her cushy Beverly Hills quarters and crashes on Sam's couch while looking for her big Hollywood break. Kate is doing aid work in Ethiopia, where she encounters family ghosts - along with Darby, the handsome but antagonistic Princeton student who thinks she's a dumb blonde who couldn't possibly care about Ethiopia since there are no celebrities here. And when Becca finally emerges from her lovers' nest, it seems her relationship with Stuart isn't as perfect as she thought.
Even if the year that changed everything has sometimes been less than dreamy, these four best friends will always have each other.
About the Author
Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain wrote their first piece together when they were fifteen - a feature on Kansas City delis for their high school newspaper. They now live in Los Angeles, where Sarah and Liz are currently Writer-Producers on the Emmy-award winning show "The Shield" and James Patterson's upcoming "Women's Murder Detective Club" TV series debuting this fall on ABC.
Liz and Sarah's first novel, Bass Ackwards and Belly Up, was published by Little, Brown in May 2006, and the paperback published in April 2007.