The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

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Sue Townsend "Sue Townsend: how the welfare state left me and my kids scouring the streets for pennies", The Observer, 13 April 2014. Extract from Mr Bevan's Dream, first published in The Observer in 1989. In a 2013 interview, Townsend discussed her plans to wrap up the series in two further volumes, but also the fact that her continually declining health might make this plan impossible. [5] She would later meet Colin Broadway, her second husband. He would end up fathering Elizabeth, her fourth child. They were married June 13, 1986. She would conceive twice again but chose abortions for both. She would change her mind later and did not approve of termination. Her 1997 novel Ghost Children speaks to these experi The “Adrian Mole” series of novels is a set of novels by English comic writer, novelist, playwright, and journalist Sue Townsend. Sue was born in 1946 in Leicester and after leaving school as a fifteen-year-old, she worked several jobs including shop assistant and factory worker. During her thirties, she became a member of the Phoenix Theater, chapter in her hometown, and by the time she was in her mid-thirties her play “Womberang” was the winner of the Thames Television Playwright Award. This launched her writing career and she would write several other plays. But she is best known as the author of the “Adrian Mole” series of novels the first of which was the 1982 published “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.” The first two novels of the series made her a bestselling novelist during the 1980s. The novels have been adapted for theatre, television, and radio with the first of the series serialized on the radio. Townsend is also a writer of television screenplays based on the first and second books. Bascombe is first encountered in The Sportswriter (1986), in his late 30s, and is subsequently the narrator – perhaps the hero – of three further novels. In The Sportswriter he is a would-be novelist who makes his living writing about sport. A divorce and the death of his son behind him, he seems to be becoming detached from his own life. Independence Day came nine years later and found Frank nine years older and selling real estate. The Lay of the Land (2006) took him into his mid-50s and contemplating a second failing marriage as the votes for George W Bush and Al Gore are being recounted in Florida.

I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. Mrs. Golightly is the grossly overweight maid-of-all-work employed by Mrs. Lewis-Masters. She asks Adrian for a part in his latest play, Plague!, and reveals that she has been compared to Hattie Jacques. She is ultrasensitive about her weight; Mrs. Golightly says that it is her glands, but her employer puts it down to living off Swiss roll. Adrian later sees her in the Bear with her " hang-dog" husband. Luigi is the Italian maitre'd at Savage's. Luigi is a communist. He greets the guests and shows the guests to their tables. He and Adrian get along well. Luigi develops athlete's foot and is caught washing it in the sink by the health inspectors - violating seventeen of the two-hundred odd counts brought against Savage and his restaurant.

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Still, without the slings and arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about . . .

a b c "Interview: Secret passions of a republican mole: Sue Townsend explains why she killed off the Queen Mother in a council house", The Independent, 1 September 1992Mia Fox is Adrian's upstairs neighbour. She is a pretty woman, but is mean and insists on peace at all times. She lives a simple life, and maintains absolute silence from Adrian. She, unlike Professor Green, is not happy with Adrian's arrival. Both Mia and Professor Green get agitated by the loud volume at which Adrian plays his music. She works as an air-traffic controller at East Midlands Airport. a b Marcus Williamson "Sue Townsend obituary: Author whose hapless, brilliantly drawn teenage hero, Adrian Mole, made her the best selling author of the 1980s", The Independent, 11 April 2014 Mrs. Appleyard, the domestic science teacher, who confiscated Barry Kent's Benson & Hedges cigarettes - the teachers were later seen to have been smoking them in the staffroom.

The Queen and I (1992), another popular work which was well received, was an outlet for her republican sentiments, although the Royal Family is still rendered with sympathy. Both the earliest Adrian Mole book and The Queen and I were adapted for the stage and enjoyed successful runs in London's West End. Women of The Year Lunch and Assembly". womenoftheyear.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007 . Retrieved 1 February 2008. Christian Palmer is Adrian's live-in landlord/boss. An undercover popular-culture academic with three precocious children and a babysitting problem. He wears his hair in a 'late-period Elvis' style and has a laugh like a barking dog. He keeps studying popular culture, but keeps getting into narrow scrapes and receiving injuries. Martin Muffet is Pauline Mole's second husband, twenty-three years her junior. He was Adrian's stepfather until his decision to leave Pauline for Adrian's own girlfriend, Bianca Dartington.

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The unfinished book would have been the ninth of Townsend's much-loved Mole novels, and had the working title Pandora's Box, the Telegraph reported. Townsend was poor until well into her thirties, and used her experiences of hardship in her work. In her later years she experienced ill health, in part related to the diabetes she developed in the mid-1980s, and in her last years endured serious sight and mobility problems. Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982), her best-selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s. The author was born the oldest daughter with two other sisters. Her father worked at a jet engine factory and then worked as a postman. Her mother was employed in a factory canteen. The author went to Glen Hills Primary School. When she was 8 years old, she got mumps and had to stay home. Her mother brought her some books, the Just William books by Richmal Crompton. She would later note the character of William Brown being a creative influence.

Adrian's half-sister, Rosie Germaine Mole (after feminist Germaine Greer), grows up to be rebellious and street-smart, in contrast to Adrian. Despite opposing personalities, the siblings enjoy a close relationship, and Adrian often feels that she is the only family member who understands him. She also relies on him on occasion; when she becomes pregnant as a teenager, Adrian supports her decision to have an abortion.My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY