The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION FEATURING A BRAND-NEW INTRODUCTION FROM CAITLIN MORAN `My comfort read. The best diaries ever written` ADAM KAY, GUARDIAN `Every child in the country should receive a copy on their thirteenth birthday` CAITLIN MORAN `One of literature`s most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us` OBSERVER **In 2022 Sue Townsend was awarded the Legacy Achievement Award by the Comedy Women in Print prize** AS SEEN IN THE TIMES ________ 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 as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents` marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and `misunderstood intellectual.` Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend`s comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers.