Ghost Children - Softcover

Townsend, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569471517 ISBN 13: 9781569471517

Publisher: Soho Pr Inc, 1999

Synopsis

The author of the celebrated Adrian Mole books presents a bittersweet novel about a discouraged electrician haunted by a former lover's abortion, who makes an appalling discovery that forces him to catch up with his past. 15,000 first printing.

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Review

'Bleak, tender and deeply affecting. Seldom have I rooted so hard for a set of fictional individuals' Mail on Sunday

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Soho Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569471517
• ISBN 13: 9781569471517
• Binding: Paperback