Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The

'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times 'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY FEATURED IN 'THE 100 BOOKS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' BBC ARTS 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 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. 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. _________ 'I remember laughing hysterically at The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. An authentic working-class voice' David Nicholls, Guardian '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 'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat Review: I remember laughing hysterically at The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. An authentic working-class voice * David Nicholls, Guardian * 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 * 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 A series of endlessly funny diaries following the aspiring intellectual in his pursuit of the treacle-haired Pandora. Pompous, judgemental and agonised in a way so particular to teenage boys, Adrian's plight has been beloved ever since it was published in 1982. And it is just as relevant as ever - a new BBC adaptation has just been announced written by One Day's David Nicholls' * i * Author Biography: Sue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 553/4), 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. Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband, four children, ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers.