‘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. Meet Adrian Mole — self-declared misunderstood intellectual, tortured poet, and one of fiction’s most endearingly hapless teenagers. His unfiltered diary lays bare the full agony and absurdity of adolescence: his parents’ crumbling marriage, an unfortunate complexion, and the daily indignities of a life stubbornly refusing to go to plan. First published over thirty years ago, this account of pimples, unrequited ambition, and domestic chaos remains as hilarious and compulsively readable as ever. ‘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. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend’s beloved Adrian Mole series, reissued as part of Penguin’s ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction. Sue Townsend is Britain’s favourite comic author, whose hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books alongside The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 3/4), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year — all acclaimed bestsellers. She also wrote numerous well-received plays.
ISBN 13: 9780241331224
Author: Sue Townsend
