When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. The Smoking Diaries was the result, in which one of Britain's most beloved and original writers reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have been as frank about themselves, and even fewer as entertaining.
- ISBN10 1847080545
- ISBN13 9781847080547
- Publish Date 2 April 2008 (first published 17 April 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English