''True Confessions of Adrian Mole, Margaret Hilda
Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend'' is the third book in
Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny ''Adrian Mole'' series.
Monday June 13th. I had a good, proper look at myself in
the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever,
but at the age of twenty years and three months I have
to admit that I look like a person who has never even
heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At
least that's what it says on his passport. But living at
home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky',
working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the
love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that
adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without
the slings and arrows of modern life what else would an
intellectual poet have to write about...Included here
are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and
Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's
daughter from Grantham. Bestselling author Sue Townsend
has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three
decades. ''Essential reading for Mole followers''.
(''Times Educational Supplement''). ''Wonderfully funny
and sharp as knives''. (''Sunday Times'').Sue Townsend
is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely
successful novels include eight ''Adrian Mole'' books,
''The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55
)'', ''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 has also written numerous well-received
plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and
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