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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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Sue Townsend dies
Duncan Gardner wrote: 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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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.
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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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.
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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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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"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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