{"product_id":"secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-the-1","title":"Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, The","description":"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend''s brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin''s ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriday January 2nd\u003cbr\u003e I felt rotten today. It''s my mother''s fault for singing ''My Way'' at two o''clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children''s home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting candidly about his parents'' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and ''misunderstood intellectual'', Adrian''s painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading'' Tom Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A satire of our times. Very funny indeed'' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful'' Heat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSue Townsend is Britain''s favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, as well as The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She also wrote numerous well-received plays.","brand":"Penguin Random House Children's UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55242687643983,"sku":"9780241331224","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780241331224_1-secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-the.jpg?v=1779823184","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-the-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}