Edna Fry is the fictional long-suffering wife of wit, ranconteur and national treasure Stephen Fry.
Her ‘diaries’ are an account of everyday life living with her lazy, selfish and spectacularly unpleasant husband.
There isn’t much of a narrative and trying to read it straight through can feel a bit like overkill, but the clever wordplay keeps coming, with Fry often using his ficitonal wife to take pot-shots at the modern world. This is more a book you would leave on the coffee table to dip into whenever you have a spare moment, but it is consistently funny.
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