The Secret Diary of Adrian Mol

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend&s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Friday January 2ndI 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. Writing candidly about his parents& marital troubles the dog his life as a tortured poet and &misunderstood intellectual& Adrian&s painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain&s favourite comic writer for over three decades.&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&A satire of our times. Very funny indeed& Sunday Times &We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read that like all the best comedy says something rather meaningful& HeatSue Townsend is Britain&s favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen and I Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester where she was born and grew up.