Sue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books,
The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾),
Number Ten,
Ghost Children,
The Queen and I,
Queen Camilla and
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers. Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband, four children, ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers.
Impeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. I had more pure reading pleasure than from any other book I read this yearOne of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of usTownsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in itAn exquisite social comedyA satire of our times. Very funny indeedMarvellous, touching and screamingly funny . . . set to become as much a cult book as
The Catcher in the Rye'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times
'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY
FEATURED IN 'THE 100 BOOKS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' BBC ARTS
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series.
Friday January 2nd
I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home.
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.
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NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL
'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe
'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat
