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

By Sue Townsend

&#39;My comfort read. The best diaries ever written&#39; ADAM KAY, GUARDIAN&#39;Every child in the country should receive a copy on their thirteenth birthday&#39; CAITLIN MORAN&#39;One of literature&#39;s most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us&#39; OBSERVER**In 2022 Sue Townsend was awarded the Legacy Achievement Award by the Comedy Women in Print prize**AS SEEN IN THE TIMES________Friday January 2ndI felt rotten today. It&#39;s my mother&#39;s fault for singing &#39;My Way&#39; at two o&#39;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&#39;s home.Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents&#39; marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and &#39;misunderstood intellectual.&#39;Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend&#39;s comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers.________&#39;The UK&#39;s bestselling fiction book of the eighties and one of the great comic creations of the past half-century. Impeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. I had more pure reading pleasure than from any other book I read this year&#39;  John Self, The Times&#39;Reading The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole when I was 14 felt quite like an awakening&#39; GREG DAVIES, Sunday Times&#39;Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see&#39; SUNDAY TELEGRAPH&#39;One of Britain&#39;s most celebrated comic writers&#39; GUARDIAN

'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written' ADAM KAY, GUARDIAN'Every child in the country should receive a copy on their thirteenth birthday' CAITLIN MORAN'One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us' OBSERVER**In 2022 Sue Townsend was awarded the Legacy Achievement Award by the Comedy Women in Print prize**AS SEEN IN THE TIMES________Friday January 2ndI felt rotten today. It's my

By Sue Townsend

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