The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 by Sue Townsend

Author as well as Writer Sue Townsend during Home. Photograph: Gary Calton Date: Monday twenty December
Time: 7pm
Venue: Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Price: 11.50/9.50"Pandora as well as we have been in love! It is official! She told Claire Nelson, who told Nigel, who told me. we told Nigel to discuss it Claire to discuss it Pandora which we lapse her love. we am over a moon with joy. we can overlook a actuality which Pandora smokes 5 Benson as well as Hedges a day as well as has her own lighter. When we have been in adore such things cease to matter." Join us for a really special Christmas Book Club with Sue Townsend, who will be talking to John Mullan about The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole elderly 13. It's 1981: Margaret Thatcher is in power, a Falklands War is around a corner as well as Prince Charles as well as Lady Diana have been getting married. But teenaged Adrian has alternative things to worry about: pimples, a dipsomaniac house pet dog, his stuck up girlfriend, his parents' marital troubles as well as a BBC's steady warding off to promote his poetry. This painfully honest, droll as well as moving novel launched a hugely popular array eight diaries as well as counting as well as introduced us to a single of a most dear characters in British fiction.Tickets have been 9.50 online or 11.50 from a box office:

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