u003cbu003eu003ciu003eThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 u003c/iu003eis the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.u003c/bu003eu003cpu003eu003ciu003eFriday January 2ndu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003eI 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/iu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003e Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eWriting 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. u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eu003cbu003ePraise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003e'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 Sharpeu003c/pu003eu003cpu003e'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Timesu003c/pu003eu003cpu003e'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heatu003c/pu003eu003cpu003e-----u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eSue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, as well as u003ciu003eThe Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 553/4)u003c/iu003e, u003ciu003eNumber Tenu003c/iu003e, u003ciu003eGhost Childrenu003c/iu003e, u003ciu003eThe Queen and Iu003c/iu003e, u003ciu003eQueen Camilla u003c/iu003eandu003ciu003e The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Yearu003c/iu003e, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She also wrote numerous well-received plays.u003c/pu003e
