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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

Sue Townsend author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK

Published:2nd Aug '18

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ cover

Forget full-frontal snogging and diaries penned by chavs. The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back!

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.

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.

Praise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend):

'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

'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times

'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat

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Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, as well as 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. She also wrote numerous well-received plays.

Thank God for Sue Townsend * Observer *
Funny, moving and a poke in the eye for adult morality * Sunday Express *
Townsend [is] the absolute monarch of comic fiction * Daily Mail *

ISBN: 9780241331224

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 21mm

Weight: 215g

304 pages