This month has mostly been full of duds, so thank god that there's still one good maid manga out there that I hadn't talked about yet.
SHIRLEY (Shari), by Kaoru Mori. First published in 2003 and first published in North America in 2008.
PLOT:
In this short story collection, we follow three young maids. The first is Shirley, a 13-year-old girl who is hired by a widowed cafe owner to be a housemaid only to become something closer to a friend or a substitute daughter. There's also the story of Nellie, who serves as a constant companion to her lonely young charge. Finally there's Mary Banks, who must deal with the fallout of her former master's prank well after his death.
