The Secret Diary & Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾: Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole, 1) - Softcover

Townsend, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140593218X ISBN 13: 9781405932189

Publisher: Penguin, 2017

Synopsis

Get yourself TWO BOOKS IN ONE for this amazing price.'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 SharpeTHE MUST-HAVE CHRISTMAS GIFT for devoted Adrian Mole fans. Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new double edition, featuring the FIRST TWO BOOKS in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s.--------------------------- 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. Telling us candidly about his parents' marital troubles, The Dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', his love for the divine Pandora and his horror at learning of his mother's pregnancy, Adrian's painfully honest diary is a hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of misspent adolescence. Features the complete texts of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole., 'I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary' David Nicholls 'Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times 'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the great comic creations' Daily Mirror 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran

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'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran

The FIRST TWO BOOKS in the hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series from comic legend Sue Townsend.

THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE IS NOW A MAJOR WEST END MUSICAL
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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.

Telling us candidly about his parents' marital troubles, The Dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', his love for the divine Pandora and his horror at learning of his mother's pregnancy, Adrian's painfully honest diary is a hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of misspent adolescence.
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'I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary' David Nicholls

'Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times

'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph

'One of the great comic creations' Daily Mirror

Features the complete texts of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole.

Review:

Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday and upcoming musical, at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s. (from publisher's description)

I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary

(David Nicholls)

Townsend's writing is still a delight, Adrian's poetry is still dreadful, and his sense of self-importance is still hilarious (Radio Times)

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)

Very funny indeed (Sunday Times)

Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it (Sunday Telegraph)

Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself (The Times)

One of the great comic creations (Daily Mirror)

A classic. The Adrian Mole diaries are thoroughly subversive. A true hero for our time (Richard Ingrams)

Adrian Mole is one of literature's great underachievers; his tragedy is that he knows it and the sadness of this undercuts the humour and makes us laugh not until, but while, it hurts (Daily Mail)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 140593218X
• ISBN 13: 9781405932189
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592