{"product_id":"secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-3-6","title":"Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3\/4 By Townsend, Sue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book in Sue Townsend''s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin''s ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriday January 2nd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A satire of our times. Very funny indeed'' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful'' Heat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSue Townsend is Britain''s favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNumber Ten\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhost Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Queen and I\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQueen Camilla \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year\u003c\/i\u003e, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She also wrote numerous well-received plays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57549955465598,"sku":"NW9780241331224","price":9.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241331224.jpg?v=1785117020","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-3-6","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}