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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

The 40th Anniversary Edition with an introduction from Caitlin Moran

Sue Townsend author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:13th Oct '22

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 cover

THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION FEATURING A BRAND-NEW INTRODUCTION FROM CAITLIN MORAN

'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
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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 as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents' marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual.'

Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend's comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers.

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'The UK'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'
John Self, The Times

'Reading The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole when I was 14 felt quite like an awakening' GREG DAVIES, Sunday Times

'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see'SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'One of Britain's most celebrated comic writers'
GUARDIAN

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

ISBN: 9780241615300

Dimensions: 204mm x 138mm x 26mm

Weight: 340g

304 pages