Oxford Girl

Plum Sykes always dreamed of going to Oxford as a young girl. When she arrived (wearing a black lycra mini-skirt, in 1988) she was plunged into a world of punting and Pimms, snobs and suicide attempts. Sykes' mini-memoir of her first term at the famed university is as comical as it is touching. Think Mean Girls meets Brideshead Revisited.