Moab is My Washpot Book

I prefer fiction myself but I got this book for my dad for christmas - he is a big fan of QI - and he totally loves it. This is an autobiography of the first twenty years of stephen frys life (I don't know if there are further autobiographies available to cover more of his life) and is apparently very funny, especially the stuff to do with his childhood. This was a big hit as a christmas present and my dad has laughed so much reading it that I might actually read this myself even.

Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny shocking tender delicious sad lyrical bruisingly frank and addictively readable. Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven he survived beatings misery love ecstasy carnal violation expulsion imprisonment criminal conviction probation and catastrophe to emerge at eighteen ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger. Fry writes with the wit to which we have become accustomed but with shocking candour too. In an age of glossy celebrity autobiographies Moab is My Washpot sets the high standard to which others should aspire.

Moab Is My Washpot : Paperback : Cornerstone : 9780099457046 : : 05 Aug 2004 : A memoir that tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, the author survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready to try and face the world in which he had always felt a stranger.