Spanning 1979-1987 The Fry Chronicles charts Stephens arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. Stretching from Frys 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 close the book and give it a hug. Daily Telegraph Extremely enjoyable. Sunday Times Fascinating. Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland 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 better for it. Observer Deliciously gossipy and very funny. The Times Extraordinary affectionate engaging cunningly planned and so crammed with incidental delights. A joyus allegro vivace of infectious comic bravura . . . gives nothing but pleasure. A delicious novel of 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