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Title: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The
Author: TOWNSEND SUE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/03/2012
Imprint: MICHAEL JOSEPH
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
‘Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it’ Sunday Telegraph
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 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’ Heat
‘One of the great comic cre
ISBN: 9780141046426
Pages: 336
Edition: 01