A complete year of diaries entries by Stephen Fry's secret wife, Edna. She cheerfully discusses their children's anti-social behavior, including teen pregnancy and school counseling, her own literary ambitions and shares her poems, and relays life with her husband, window washer and sometime taxi-driver, Stephen Fry. Though she often thinks she has seen Stephen's face on a passing bus and people get excited to hear she's married to him, Mrs Fry thinks it strange that anyone wants to hear what it's like to be married to a drunken, skirt-chasing window washer who only changes his pants with the seasons.To anyone unfamiliar with Stephen Fry, it's still a funny book but you'd miss out on the main point. To Fry fans, this is hilarious. 4.5 stars Hilarious. Just... Wow. The casual references to child neglect, the horrible puns, the terribly misguided self-image of Edna and the way the family's entire lifestyle is a parody of a certain class of English people... It's just fantastic. The best part is that there are also a lot of references to famous literary works, etc, that Edna never gets, but are still entertaining to the reader. There are also a lot of parodies, some of which are actually worked out in the novel, such as an alternative version of "Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden, which was painful to get through in its blasphemy, and a novel called "The Brown Conundrum" wonderfully mocking the works of Dan Brown.I wonder how much longer Stephen can keep his wife in the dark, and his children out of prison...
What do You think about Mrs Fry's Diary (2010)?
An enjoyable read. Witty and funny, everything you would expect from Stephen Fry!
—meredith
