Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works

" 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' he enquired politely. 'No thanks!' I said. You should have seen the look he gave me. Then he smiled, all white and spiteful. He smiled at me, Mr Shakespeare, my husband. Well, I ask you." Here is Shakespeare as you have never seen him - through the eyes of his wife, the plain-speaking, never quite tamed but not unloving shrew, writing in her secret book the true, no-holds-barred history of her with her husband whose work she could never be bothered to read. And especially, of the only time he invited her to London....