The Fry Chronicles

'Stretching from Fry's success at Cambridge, where he met the comic love of his life, Hugh Laurie, to his first forays into television, this is one of the funniest, most generous, most daring pieces of confessional writing published in years. Most readers will want to "lose the book and give it a hug' Daily Telegraph 'Extremely enjoyable' Sunday limes 'Fascinating. Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comcdyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect showbiz anecdotes, and genuine readerly excitement. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. A painfully honest attempt to tear the mask aside ... we are splendidly the better for it' Observer 'Deliciously gossipy and very funny' The Times 'Extraordinary, affectionate, engaging, cunningly planned and so crammed with incidental delights. A joyous allegro vivace of infectious comic bravura . . . gives nothing but pleasure. [A] delicious novel of the rise and rise of a brilliant young man, which is filled with such vivid background, such unerring social observation, so many wonderful characters and such beguiling incident' Guardian