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I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary

-- David Nicholls
Townsend's writing is still a delight, Adrian's poetry is still dreadful, and his sense of self-importance is still hilarious * Radio Times *
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 *
Very funny indeed * Sunday Times *
Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it * Sunday Telegraph *
Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself * The Times *
One of the great comic creations * Daily Mirror *
A classic. The Adrian Mole diaries are thoroughly subversive. A true hero for our time * Richard Ingrams *
Adrian Mole is one of literature's great underachievers; his tragedy is that he knows it and the sadness of this undercuts the humour and makes us laugh not until, but while, it hurts * Daily Mail *
The funniest person in the world * Caitlin Moran *

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 23/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9781405932189, 978-1405932189
      ISBN10: 140593218X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary

      -- David Nicholls
      Townsend's writing is still a delight, Adrian's poetry is still dreadful, and his sense of self-importance is still hilarious * Radio Times *
      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 *
      Very funny indeed * Sunday Times *
      Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it * Sunday Telegraph *
      Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself * The Times *
      One of the great comic creations * Daily Mirror *
      A classic. The Adrian Mole diaries are thoroughly subversive. A true hero for our time * Richard Ingrams *
      Adrian Mole is one of literature's great underachievers; his tragedy is that he knows it and the sadness of this undercuts the humour and makes us laugh not until, but while, it hurts * Daily Mail *
      The funniest person in the world * Caitlin Moran *

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