The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133/4, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. Read more Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre. She also wrote secretly for twenty years.

Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection Show Less Product Details _ '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. 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. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times NOW A MAJOR WEST END MUSICAL The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Category: (G) General (US: Trade) (J) Children / Juvenile. David Walliams contributes a foreword to this beautiful 30th Anniversary edition of The Secret Diary Series: Adrian Mole. With a beautiful new package, this novel is perfect for long-time Adrian Mole fans or newcomers to the series. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend is a modern classic - Adrian is as popular as ever. Description for The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole 1) Paperback.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend