Sue Townsend has died

[BikeRunSki]

RIP Sue

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

When I was living abroad in hot, flashy, alienating place and suffering from proper, lunacy-inducing depression, finding The Prostrate Years in a bookshop genuinely helped me. It was like someone canned England and reminded me that the normal world was still happening.

RIP Sue

Adrian could actually write poems couldn't he? That Queenie one is lovely. Well I think so anyway :)
Remember the Mrs Thatcher one?

Remember
"What future is there for the young?
What songs are waiting to be sung?"

I can't remember the rest. He graffitied it in the toilets wall and got found out. He asked Pop Eye Scruton how he knew he'd written it. "You signed it, idiot boy".

:o

Very sad news :(

What is going on this year? It seems to be every few days.

I heard on the news last night that she'd been working on another Adrian diary. I wonder if the publishers will get a ghost writer to finish it?

It was supposed to be released last year I think but postponed due to her health :(.

This was posted just over a year ago.

Latest Townsend novel delayed
21.03.13 | Charlotte Williams
1 1 85
The next instalment in Sue Townsend's bestselling Adrian Mole series will be arriving a year later than anticipated, due to a period of ill health.
The as-yet-untitled novel was originally scheduled for publication this November.
Townsend's publisher Michael Joseph told The Bookseller: "Sue is making a strong recovery after a mild stroke at the end of last year. She has started a new Mole, and we—and her legion of Mole fans—are all hoping she will deliver it in time for publication in autumn 2014."
During an appearance at the Oxford Literary Festival, Townsend said the book will cover "the coalition years" and feature Mole, aged 13 and three-quarters in the first volume, now aged 45.
Townsend also said she would "at a push" only be able to write two further instalments, due to concerns about her health, according to the Telegraph.
There have been nine volumes of Adrian Mole diaries so far; the most recently published in The Prostate Years, released by MJ in 2009.

I still pick up and read Adrian Mole books now! I even bought them on the iPad as audiobooks. Still so funny. RIP Sue such a brilliant writer.

Very sad news indeed. A true British treasure.

Audiobooks! What a great idea, I do a lot of driving for work, think I will get some.

Love love AM diaries so sad Sue Townsend has died. Am a year younger than AM read the diary when it first came out and have kept dipping into it ever since. The writing, observations and humour still shines as brightly as ever. Signs of a true classic. Will give it to DS1 when hits his 13 th birthday later this year. AM sayings that have made it into our family's repertoire:

"Knowing an area like the back of your hand with gloves on" when you have no idea where you are going
"I'll give my right ball to go to Skeggy". or insert destination of choice
"Life isn't all pony riding and viola strings" response to entitled whingeing

Bits from the diaries that make me LOL:

"It was quite a shock to see Doreen Slater. Why my father wanted to have carnal knowledge of her I can't imagine. She is thin as a stick insect. She has no bust and no bum"

"Bert doesn't get on with his district nurse. He says he doesn't want his privates mauled about by a woman. Personally I wouldnt mind it."

"After paper round went back to bed and stayed there all morning reading Big and Bouncy. Felt like I have never felt before"

RIP Sue

RIP.

Apologies if not quoted correctly, my favourite was:

'My mother has decided that sugar is the most evil thing in the world and has banned it from the house. She smoked two cigarettes whilst informing me of this decision'.

I remember the one at the school play starring Barry Higgins or someone: 'Barry Higgins' mum led the applause, but not many followed...'

No, it was ten stone Alice someone who danced the Dying Swan! :o

Just been rereading Adrian Mole on the train. I forgot just how good it is! I think I was about 13 when I last read it - so much that went over y head before!