{"product_id":"the-secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-34-9780141046426","title":"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 34","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A satire of our times. Very funny indeed''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''My comfort read. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me'' \u003c\/b\u003eADAM KAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFEATURED IN ''THE 100 BOOKS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'' \u003ci\u003eBBC ARTS \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3\/4 \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book in Sue Townsend''s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriday January 2nd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI 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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet 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.\u003cbr\u003e_________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR MUSICAL \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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'' \u003c\/b\u003eTom Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful''\u003c\/b\u003e Heat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eImpeccable comic timing, evergreen comic writing. I had more pure reading pleasure than from any other book I read this year\u003c\/b\u003e -- John Self * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eTownsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisite social comedy * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA satire of our times. Very funny indeed * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eMarvellous, touching and screamingly funny . . . set to become as much a cult book as \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832671256919,"sku":"9780141046426","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141046426.jpg?v=1710336530","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-34-9780141046426","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}