The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Adrian Mole Book 1

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Summer 2019, the acclaimed Adrian Mole musical opens in London's West End 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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Impeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. I had more pure reading pleasure than from any other book I read this year -- John Self * The Times *
One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us * Observer *
Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it * Sunday Telegraph *
An exquisite social comedy * Daily Telegraph *
A satire of our times. Very funny indeed * Sunday Times *
Marvellous, touching and screamingly funny . . . set to become as much a cult book as The Catcher in the Rye

Author Bio

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 55 ), 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.