Sue Townsend

   Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend is an English novelist who is known by the books of Adrian Mole. She was born in Leicester, the 2 of April 1964. His father was a postman and she was the oldest of five sisters. Sue learnt to read when was eight years old and later, started to write for a magazine. She left school at the age of 15 and worked in a variety of jobs including factory worker and shop assistant. She married a metal worker and they had four children: Daniel, Victoria, Elisabeth and Sean, who donated a kidney for her.


   The books that she's written are:

• The secret diary of Adrian Mole (1982), her best selling book.
• The growing pains of Adrian Mole (1984)
• The true confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (1989)
• Adrian Mole from minor to major (1991)
• Adrian Mole: The wilderness years (1993)
•      "         "      The cappuccino years (1999)
•      "         "      and the weapons of mass destruction (2004)
• The lost diaries of Adrian Mole (2008)
• Adrian Mole: The prostrate years (2009)

Other novels that she writes:

• Rebulding Coventry (1988)
• The queen and I (1992), a story about the British royal family living a "normal" life.
• Ghost children (1997)
• Number ten (2002)
• Queen Camilla (2006)
• The woman who went to bed for a year (2012), an other important novel.