The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 30th Anniversary Ed 30th Anniversary Edition Adrian Mole Book 1 Townsend Sue

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend is a modern classic - Adrian is as popular as ever. With a beautiful new package this novel is perfect for long-time Adrian Mole fans or newcomers to the series. David Walliams contributes a foreword to this beautiful 30th Anniversary edition of The Secret Diary|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 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. Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband four children ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers.|Impeccable comic timing evergreen comic writing. I had more pure reading pleasure than from any other book I read this year|One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us|Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it|An exquisite social comedy|A satire of our times. Very funny indeed|Marvellous touching and screamingly funny . . . set to become as much a cult book as The Catcher in the Rye|'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times 'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAYFEATURED IN 'THE 100 BOOKS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' BBC ARTS The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Friday January 2ndI 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._________NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL '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'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read that like all the best comedy says something rather meaningful' Heat