Sue Townsend was, and remains, Britain's favourite comic
novelist.
For over thirty years, after the publication of her instant and
iconic bestseller The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ in
1982, she made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's
conscience. Seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries followed, and
all were highly acclaimed bestsellers.
She also published five other hugely popular novels - including The
Queen and I and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - as well as
writing numerous well-received plays. Remarkably, Sue did not learn
to read until she was eight and left school with no qualifications.
As beloved by critics as she was by readers the length and breadth
of the nation, she chronicled the lives of ordinary people in
Britain through times of upheaval and great social change.
She lived in Leicester all her Life, dying in the city that she
loved in 2014.
Impeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. I had more pure
reading pleasure than from any other book I read this year
*The Times*
One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent
guide for all of us
*Observer*
Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to
laugh at what we see in it
*Sunday Telegraph*
An exquisite social comedy
*Daily Telegraph*
A satire of our times. Very funny indeed
*Sunday Times*
Marvellous, touching and screamingly funny . . . set to become as
much a cult book as The Catcher in the Rye
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