HUMPHRIES, BARRY — Handling Edna the Unauthorised Biography

Australia, Hatchette. 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, 260+ pp in great order - all pp clean white & tightly bound as a possum could be. contents/review > This is a difficult book to categorise - is it an autobiography? A memoir? Fictionalised truth? Here, Barry Humphries tells us of his discovery of Moonee Ponds (i.e. Melbourne suburbia) housewife, Edna Everage in 1950s Melbourne and how that young woman became one of the grandest dames of history. Barry lays the rumours to rest that he and Edna are one and describes his tumultuous relationship with Edna through death, alcohol, bankruptcy and gladioli. Excellent/Excellent.