Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 34
Sue Townsend
In this painfully honest (and secret) diary, teenager Adrian Mole writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and "misunderstood intellectual".






I grew up reading the Sue Townsend books, and they were definitely an education of a sort. Clumsy teenage syntax just about disguises Townsend's politically astute satire while illustrating the least charismatic but most familiar hero you are likely to read. I never had a 'thing' to measure, but I sympathised with Adrian's Growing Pains and his social misadventures.
Well worth a look.

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