{"product_id":"9780241331224","title":"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Sue Townsend\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eInterest age: from c 11 years\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 August 2018 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Penguin Books Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Originals' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 196 x 28mm | 218g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriday 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing 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. Praise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): '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'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-----Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, as well as The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She also wrote numerous well-received plays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sue Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153961300293,"sku":"9780241331224","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241331224.jpg?v=1762273273","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241331224","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}