The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Author: Townsend, Sue

This is the 30th anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of the 1980s: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 by comic genius Sue Townsend. Featuring a new introduction by comedian and actor David Walliams as well as over sixty pages of extra material about Adrian Mole, his friends and family. 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. 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). One of the great comic creations . ( Daily Mirror ). Marvellous, touching and screamingly funny ...set to become as much a cult book as The Catcher in the Rye . (Jilly Cooper). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Since the publication of The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 in 1982, she has made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. Seven further volumes of diaries have followed: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole , The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole , Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years , Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years , The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole , Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction , and Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years . All have been acclaimed bestsellers, some have been adapted for radio and TV, starring Lulu, Julie Walters and Stephen Mangan, among others. She has also written six other popular novels ( The Queen and I , Queen Camilla , Number Ten , Rebuilding Coventry , Ghost Children and The Woman Who Went to Bed for A Year ) and penned many well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141046426
Published: 19 Jan 2012