Sue Townsend 
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 
Adrian Mole Book 1

”My comfort read. The best diaries ever written” ADAM KAY, GUARDIAN
”Every child in the country should receive a copy on their thirteenth birthday” CAITLIN MORAN
”One of literature”s most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us” OBSERVER
**In 2022 Sue Townsend was awarded the Legacy Achievement Award by the Comedy Women in Print prize**

AS SEEN IN THE TIMES
________
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 as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents” marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and ”misunderstood intellectual.”

Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend”s comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers.
________

”The UK”s bestselling fiction book of the eighties and one of the great comic creations of the past half-century. Impeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. I had more pure reading pleasure than from any other book I read this year” John Self, The Times
”Reading The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole when I was 14 felt quite like an awakening” GREG DAVIES, Sunday Times
”Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

”One of Britain”s most celebrated comic writers” GUARDIAN