The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Adrian Mole Book 1 - Softcover

Townsend, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141010835 ISBN 13: 9780141010830

Publisher: Penguin, 2002

Synopsis

Adrian Mole is a household name. THE SECRET DIARY has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is a modern classic. Now in Penguin for the first time, it is brought bang up to date for the 21st Century with an amazing new look, ready to make a whole new readership roar with laughter all over again.

In THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE Aged 13 3/4 teenager Adrian writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. His painfully honest diary makes hilarious and compelling reading.

'Townsend's wit is razor-sharp' Mirror

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Review:

One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us (Observer)

Marvellous, touching and screamingly funny . . . set to become as much a cult book as The Catcher in the Rye (Jilly Cooper)

A satire of our times. Very funny indeed (Sunday Times)

About the Author:

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0141010835
• ISBN 13: 9780141010830
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 272