The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Adrian Mole Book 1 (Adrian Mole, #1) (The Originals)

by Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole is a household name. THE SECRET DIARY has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is a modern classic. Now in Penguin for the first time, it is brought bang up to date for the 21st Century with an amazing new look, ready to make a whole new readership roar with laughter all over again.

In THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE Aged 13 3/4 teenager Adrian writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. His painfully honest diary makes hilarious and compelling reading.

'Townsend's wit is razor-sharp' Mirror

• ISBN10: 0141010835
• ISBN13: 9780141010830
• Publish Date: 31 October 2002 (first published 1 January 1960)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 21 December 2011
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

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As this is a classic and all, I figured I should finally get around to reading it. It was pretty much exactly what I expected, no more, no less. I didn't find it laugh out loud funny, as many apparently do, but it was more than moderately entertaining all the way through.

One of my fears was that this would be too childish for me by the time I got around to reading it, but there are plenty of jokes in it which would probably have gone over my head when I was younger. I probably would have liked it when I was 15, but there is plenty in it for the 26-year-old me to appreciate as well, and I think I like it in a different way now than I would have then.

This is a charming, fun, quick, easy-to-read book which everyone should probably get around to eventually. But there's no rush.