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Next year I could be in a children's home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing 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\u003eBestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades.\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. 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