Sue Townsend
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is a novel by Sue Townsend that introduced the fictional character Adrian Mole. The book stands as the work most closely associated with her name, and the character proved durable enough to anchor several further titles, among them Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, and Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Susan Lillian Townsend was born on 2 April 1946 in Leicester, a city of the United Kingdom, and she died there on 10 April 2014. She worked in English across several forms of writing, serving as a writer, playwright, journalist, and opinion journalist, as well as a children's writer. Beyond the Adrian Mole series, her notable works include the novel The Queen and I and the novel Rebuilding Coventry.
Townsend received formal recognition for her writing during her lifetime. She was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and received the James Joyce Awards. She died in Leicester on 10 April 2014, the city in which she had been born sixty-eight years earlier.
Quotes by Sue Townsend
At four o’clock I had one of those rare moments of happiness that I will remember all my life. I was sitting in front of Grandma’s electric coal fire eating dripping toast and reading the News of the World. There was a good play on Radio Four about torturing in concentration camps. Grandma was asleep and the dog was being quiet. All at once I felt this dead good feeling. Perhaps I am turning religious. I think I have got it in me to be a Saint of some kind.
Your trouble is, you want to be happy all the time. You’re fifty years old – haven’t you realized yet that most of the time most of us just trudge through life? Happy days are few and far between.
I’ve been a bit worried about my maleness lately, somewhere along the line I seem to have picked up too many female hormones.
Bernard patted his arm and said, ‘Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it’s you who have changed.
I’m spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
