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Sue Townsend, with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1982) and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984), was Britain’s bestselling author of the 1980s. Her hugely successful novels are Rebuilding Coventry (1988), True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (1989), Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major (1991), The Queen and I (1992), Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993), Ghost Children (1997), Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999), The Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman (Aged 55¾) (2001) and Number Ten (2002). Most of her books are published by Penguin. She is also well known as a playwright. She lives in Leicester.
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First published in Great Britain by Methuen 1993
Published in Mandarin Paperbacks 1994
Published in Penguin Books 2003
Copyright © Sue Townsend, 1993
All rights reserved
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Cover illustration by Alice Tait
ISBN: 978-0-14-196244-3
To my sisters, Barbara and Kate
‘What’s gone and what’s past help
Should be past grief.’
William Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale