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    Sue Townsend dies

    aged 68 and 9 days.

    #2
    Sue Townsend dies

    Sad news. Apart from Mole, I liked the one about the Windsor family being exiled to a Council estate in Nuneaton.

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      Sue Townsend dies

      As I no longer worry about being cool anymore, I'm happy to admit that the first Adrian Mole book is in my top-ten favourite books.

      It still amazes me how accurately a female author was able to get into the head of a teenage boy. And it was one of the few books I remember being fought over in the playground.

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        #4
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        Duncan Gardner wrote: Sad news. Apart from Mole, I liked the one about the Windsor family being exiled to a Council estate in Nuneaton.
        I really want to read that one actually. Lately, she had been on Radio 4 a lot and came over as very politically sound. Indeed, the Mole books are a great insight into living under Thatcherism in their way.

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          #5
          Sue Townsend dies

          A great shame. Echo the sentiments re. Mole, or the first two books anyway. Anyone read The Cappuccino Years?

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            Stumpy Pepys wrote: As I no longer worry about being cool anymore, I'm happy to admit that the first Adrian Mole book is in my top-ten favourite books.

            It still amazes me how accurately a female author was able to get into the head of a teenage boy. And it was one of the few books I remember being fought over in the playground.
            Ditto on all of that.

            I always imagine adult Adrian to look like BBC reporter Nick Higham. Sue's son recently took to Twitter and retweeted a couple of things which hinted at Adrian and Pandora being together in middle age.

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              #7
              Sue Townsend dies

              The bit where he comes home from school early, to find his father "… watching Play School, pretending to be an acorn growing into a tree," still cracks me up, nearly thirty years later.

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                Stumpy Pepys wrote: The bit where he comes home from school early, to find his father "… watching Play School, pretending to be an acorn growing into a tree," still cracks me up, nearly thirty years later.
                Ha ha. Yes, there were many, many great lines like that in the book. I never read any of the later Adrian Mole books, but have always planned to.

                I wasn't keen on The Queen and I (I'm sure the fictional council estate was in Leicester, not Nuneaton), nor could I finish Number 10 (not so subtle satire, as I remember.)

                As Bored says, she always came across as really ideologically sound and I'd interested to know whether her plays reflected her politics.

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                  #9
                  Sue Townsend dies

                  Hola, Senor. I stand corrected on the Leicester setting.

                  Check out an old 'living on the breadline' article by ST reproduced in the Observer today.

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                    #10
                    Sue Townsend dies

                    Will do, Duncan. Bought it today to read on the train to London tomorrow in fact. Hope all is well.

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                      Sue Townsend dies

                      "The bit where he comes home from school early, to find his father "… watching Play School, pretending to be an acorn growing into a tree," still cracks me up, nearly thirty years later."

                      2 more quotes, courtesy of that Observer article:

                      "I was racked with sexuality but it wore off when I helped my father put manure on our rose bed."

                      "I have realised I have never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. This is what comes of living in a cul-de-sac."

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