Sue Townsend has died

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RIP Sue

Red socks today then. Adrian Mole is a year older than me, I grew up with him.

I loved Adrian Mole. RIP Sue Townsend.

I was lucky to have met her when I worked for a Bookshop chain (now extinct) at a party at Penguin. She was so nice with a great sense of humour as was to be expected...

RIP

I am just in the middle of The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year and really loving it. Taken too young. 68 is no age.

Oh, I adore Sue's work. Rest in peace Sue and thank you for all the laughs.

Oh, no - I too loved her writing, her understanding of real life and every permutation of 'us and them'. What a lot of ill health she experienced in middle age though. Rest in peace, my world is better with your writing in it.

Really sorry to hear that, far too young to be taken from us. I grew up with Adrian Mole too. the original 'diary' style book. Still have the original copies from the 80s in my bookcase, looking a bit battered now as they have been so well read. Thanks Sue

Really sad. I knew she'd had a lot of health problems but 68 is no age these days. Another one who grew up with Adrian Mole as a near-contemporary. Just re-read the Diary and Growing Pains at Christmas, funnily enough.

I remember the girls in my class discussing in thrilled whispers the willy-measuring bit in the first Adrian Mole book.

Funny, warm and wise with real insight into class. Sorry that there will never be another Adrian Mole book to reflect our times. RIP Sue (and she really didn't have an easy life, by the sounds of it).

Apart from being a little bit in love with Adrian, I have come to realise what perfect social commentaries her books are.

thats SO sad, I loved her books and grew up with Adrian Mole

Adrians Mum was my favourite book character ever, old Pauline Mole

RIP xxxxxxx

This is such sad news. I loved all her books and having spent some time in Leicester, really loved the little references to it, 'Lo' the flat hills of my homeland'.

So many funny quotes in the Adrian Mole books. "Ivan Braithwaite has lent me 'The ragged trousered philanthropist', I've always fancied taking up stamp collecting".

Will set about reading them again now. RIP Sue.

Oh no! :(

She was so clever and witty. My sis and I have so many Adrian Mole jokes we regularly trot out. 68 isn't old. Very sorry to hear this.

I really wanted to fancy Adrian (but never quite achieved it)!

Tulips by Barry Kent

Nice tall red stiff
In a vase
On a table
In a room
In our house

Pandora by Adrian Mole

Pandora!
I adore ya!
I implore ye
Don't ignore me.

:)

Loved Adrian Mole….and still remember those haikus

How sad

Loved Adrian Mole,and The Queen and I was hilarious and even now I can picture Philip cowering in bed whilst Anne and Queen E got on with life,and Wills and Harry dash past the window in a feral group of small boys!

And don't forget Harris, the Queen Mother's corgi, running wild with a pack of feral dogs. "Tough dogs don't look right and left" :o :o

Never read the Adrian moles my first introduction to her was with the queen and I then later queen camilla am actually part way through number 10 at the moment. A sad as said up thread 68 is no age at all

I may have to download all the books to my kindle :)

Recently bought a new (second hand) copy of Adrian Mole. I originally had DM's, but it fell apart through being read so many times. Just popped it in my bag to reread on the train later.

Oh how sad I've just been rereading Adrian Mole this year.

So sad. I too am a year younger than Adrian Mole. I still have my old battered copy of the secret diary, completely dog eared as i read it so much (and passed it round my friends). I read it again about 5 years ago and all the funny anecdotes came flooding back to me.

''My willy is now (whatever) inches long now - i might be needing it soon''

'I have never seen a dead body or a female nipple. This is what comes from living in a cul de sac'

RIP Sue.

I read the AM books when I was 10. It took me 5 years to realise a WD wasn't to do with bed wetting!

Must re read them now I'm old enough to properly understand them.