"sure' that Adrian is George's; she was friendly with a maggot farmer, Ernie, before Adrian was born. Pauline leaves George twice afterwards – both times she gets married. The first time was to an engineer, Martin Muffet, despite him being twenty-seven years younger than Pauline. She divorced him when he eloped with Adrian's girlfriend Bianca Dartington, also an engineer. She remarries George, and divorces him later. She marries Ivan Braithwaite, the father of Pandora, the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Labour representative, whilst George marries Pandora's mother, Tania. It became known as 'The Great Mole/Braithwaite Parent Swap'. After Ivan dies from drowning, George leaves"
"and frustrated point of view, as well as depictions of his experiences of unemployment and public spending cutbacks, both major political issues at the time. In dealing with political events, a constant plot device is that Adrian makes confident predictions and statements that are known to be wrong by the reader, ranging from belief in the Hitler Diaries to an Iraqi victory in the Gulf War and the existence of their weapons of mass destruction. Adrian Albert Mole is born 2 April 1967, and grows up with his parents in the city of Leicester; he moves to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in England's"
"upset to hear that Sue Townsend has died. One of the warmest, funniest and wisest people I ever met"". Townsend was survived by her husband, four children and ten grandchildren. Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other"
"Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other forms. She enjoyed great success in the 1980s, with her Adrian Mole books selling more copies than any other work of fiction in Britain during the decade. This series, which"
"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is the first book in the Adrian Mole series of comedic fiction, written by Sue Townsend. The book is written in a diary style, and focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenager who believes himself to be an intellectual. The story is set in 1981 and 1982, and in the background it refers to some of the historic world events of the time, such as the Falklands War and the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana as well as the birth"
"his sister Rosie Mole, and Adrian's general worry about his O levels and nuclear war. Adrian Mole is an outsider who feels the reason he can't quite fit in with ""regular"" society is that he is an intellectual. Evidence from his diary entries include a precocious interest in literature, in left-wing politics, a desire to have his own poetry show on the BBC, his dislike of Margaret Thatcher and his frequent critiques of his less-refined schoolmates and family. Adrian's dysfunctional family, as in ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"", is one of the focal points of the book. Although portrayed"
"hardship in her work. In her later years she suffered ill health, in part related to the diabetes she developed in the mid-1980s, and in her last years endured serious sight and mobility problems. Townsend was born at the Maternity Hospital in Causeway Lane, Leicester Leicester, the oldest of three sisters. Her father had worked at a factory making jet engines before becoming a postman, while her mother worked in a factory canteen. She attended Glen Hills Primary School, where the school secretary was Mrs Claricotes, a name she used for the school secretary in the Adrian Mole books. At"
"Adrian Mole Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared (as ""Nigel"") in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence. The first two books appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy. They also captured something of the zeitgeist of the UK during the Thatcher period. The series has many themes. The first books concentrate on Adrian's desires and ambitions"
"The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, a novel by Sue Townsend, is the 2nd book in the Adrian Mole series, following on from ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"". It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage aspiring intellectual. The novel is included in the omnibus """". The book is written in a diary style and set in 1982 through to mid-1983. Notable events in this volume are the breakup and later reconciliation of Adrian and Pandora, Adrian's attempt to run away from home and subsequent breakdown, the birth of"
"place his parents would look and so runs away instead to Grimsby. Reviewing the book for ""The Financial Times"", Martin Seymour-Smith wrote that it was ""quite as classic"" as its predecessor. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, a novel by Sue Townsend, is the 2nd book in the Adrian Mole series, following on from ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"". It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage aspiring intellectual. The novel is included in the omnibus """". The book is written in a diary style and set in 1982"
"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (musical) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is a stage musical based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Sue Townsend. It features book and lyrics by Jake Brunger and music and lyrics by Pippa Cleary. The musical made its world premiere at the Curve in Leicester in March 2015. The musical was announced to make its world premiere at the Curve in Leicester (the title character and author Sue Townsend's hometown) from 7 March to 4 April 2015, with an official opening on 17 March."
"and trained as a nurse and is now a psychiatric nurse at the Berrywood Hospital in Northampton. The couple divorced in 1998. In 1998 he subsequently married Joanne Young, a nursing colleague, and continues to live in Northampton. He subsequently divorced Joanne and married Pina Ruocco. Gian Sammarco Giancarlo ""Gian"" Sammarco (born 30th January 1970) is a former child actor best known for playing the title role in the television dramatisations of ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" (1985) and its sequel, ""The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole"" (1987). Born in Northampton, England, the son of Jacqueline and"
"the former Mary Linwood Secondary School. The principal sponsor of this Academy is the Church of England. The Council transferred the site of the former secondary school (Mary Linwood) to the sponsors. Samworth, Leicester's first City Academy, was built on the site of the old Mary Linwood school and completed in September, 2007. The children of author Sue Townsend attended the school during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their experiences influenced her highly successful Adrian Mole books. ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" was reputedly based on Sue Townsend's son's experiences at the school. Several of the teachers who"
"Gian Sammarco Giancarlo ""Gian"" Sammarco (born 30th January 1970) is a former child actor best known for playing the title role in the television dramatisations of ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" (1985) and its sequel, ""The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole"" (1987). Born in Northampton, England, the son of Jacqueline and Pietro Salvatore Sammarco, Gian Sammarco is one of a large family of Italian descent. He attended Kingsthorpe Upper School (now Kingsthorpe College) in that town where he gained seven O-levels and five CSEs. The artistic director of the Royal Theatre in Northampton, Michael Napier Brown, selected"
"Pandora Braithwaite Dr Pandora Louise Elizabeth Braithwaite is a fictional character in the ""Adrian Mole"" series of books by Sue Townsend. In the books, Pandora is the love of Adrian's life. Pandora is beautiful (Adrian especially loves her 'treacle-coloured' hair) and intelligent, and in the first books, she and Adrian Mole are happy together. In the later books, Pandora resists Adrian's advances in favour of physically and intellectually powerful men, although Adrian remains attached to her. As a youth she is precocious and outspoken with firm feminist and hard-left views. As she ages she becomes successful but also manipulative and"
"the real-life novel ""A Child Called ""It""""). The early parts of the autobiography, read by Adrian, are sad - but Pauline soon adopts a brighter tone. Adrian's father. George is a full-time wheelchair user and still continuing his unhealthy lifestyle, despite having had a stroke. During the book, he discovers that he is not Rosie Mole's biological father whilst appearing with Pauline and Alan Lucas (Rosie's biological father) on The Jeremy Kyle Show. He is very fond of Gracie, Adrian's daughter. Adrian's son Glenn is in Afghanistan's Helmand Province with the British Army, despite his admission that he does not"
"Lindsey Stagg Lindsey Anne Stagg (born 1970) is an English former child actor known for playing Pandora Braithwaite in the television dramatisations of ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" (1985) and its sequel, ""The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole"" (1987). These were her only television appearances. The daughter of Barbara A. (""née"" Leney) (born 1945) and Terence F. Stagg (born 1943), who married in 1966 at Rochford in Essex, she was discovered by Michael Napier Brown, the artistic director at the Royal Theatre in Northampton, where she was born (he also discovered her co-star in the series, Gian"
"Bali Rai Bali Rai (born 30 October 1971) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction. Rai was born in Leicester in 1971, to Punjabi parents. At the age of eleven, he read ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" by Sue Townsend, which inspired him to take up writing. He has also cited Roald Dahl as an early influence on his writing. He attended Judgemeadow Community College, moving to Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College for sixth form. In 1991, Rai moved to London to study at Southbank University, graduating with a 2:1 in Politics. He stayed in"
"Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years is the fifth book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. The book was first published in 1999 by Michael Joseph. It is set from April 30, 1997 (the run up to Pandora's election as MP) until May 2, 1998. Adrian is 30 years of age. The book was made into a TV series that aired in 2001. Adrian is the Head Chef in a top Soho restaurant, and currently lives in the upstairs room of the restaurant; the rest of his family live in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. He is"
"work. After suffering kidney failure, she underwent dialysis and in September 2009 she received a kidney from her elder son Sean, after a two-year wait for a donor. She also had degenerative arthritis, which left her wheelchair-bound. By this time, she was dictating to Sean, who worked as her typist. Surgery was carried out at Leicester General Hospital and Townsend spoke to the BBC about her illness on an appeal for National Kidney Day. Townsend died at her home on 10 April 2014 following a stroke. Stephen Mangan, who portrayed Adrian Mole in the , stated that he was ""greatly"
"an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University in Leicester. He was assassinated by a rogue Nottingham hit squad in 2017. The accused later cited a argument over donuts in the street as the reason for the death. Bali Rai has contributed short stories to a number of anthologies, including: Bali Rai Bali Rai (born 30 October 1971) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction. Rai was born in Leicester in 1971, to Punjabi parents. At the age of eleven, he read ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" by Sue Townsend, which inspired him to take up writing."
"the first, ""The Diary of a Somebody"", is a direct reference to the Grossmith original. Reviewing this volume in ""The Spectator"", Benny Green points out several parallels with the original, in both character and event. Matthew's book, says Green, is amusing, but the Grossmiths' book is superior; it is ""affecting as well as comical, in a way that the Matthew pastiche is not"". In 1982 came the first appearance of Sue Townsend's teenage creation, Adrian Mole, whose passage into young manhood and early middle age is charted in a long series of diaries. The more middle-aged he becomes, says Morton,"
"1992, focusing instead on TV, acting and live performances. These tracks were released on the Jive Records label. Lulu has had hits on the Decca, Columbia, Atco, Polydor, Chelsea, Alfa, Jive, Dome, RCA, Mercury and Universal labels. She has also released singles for GTO, Atlantic, Globe, EMI, Concept, Lifestyle, Utopia and Rocket, and Epic in the US. For a while, she held the record for number of hit record labels in the UK charts. In 1985, she published her first book, ""Lulu – Her Autobiography"". On television, she replaced Julie Walters as Adrian Mole's mother in ""The Secret Diary of"
"and subtle re-ignition of her feelings for Adrian throughout the book and she admits several times that she loves him and thinks of him a lot. She unexpectedly arrives at Adrian's home on the final page of the book, as Adrian sits under the trees outside. The book ends as Adrian stands up and walks towards her. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years is the last installment in the Adrian Mole series of novels by Sue Townsend. It is set between 2007 and 2008. It was released on 5 November 2009. It was the last book"
"and is rude and contemptuous to him, despite Adrian's (often clearly misguided) attempts to involve him in his writer's workshop and cheer him up. He is given a guide dog for his condition, to which he develops an emotional attachment. The son of Adrian Mole. Glenn, to his father's considerable annoyance, possesses none of his father's ""intelligence"" and opts to join the British Army. Stationed in Iraq, he is positively encouraged by his father to fight in a war with no foreseeable end. Towards the end, Adrian's opinion of the war has radically changed. The best friend of Glenn, Adrian's"
"for Adrian at all and ultimately sets fire to Archie's old house, after Pandora spends a night there. The uninsured house is completely destroyed, leaving him and his sons homeless. One of the few things recovered from the wreckage of the house is Glenn's diary, containing pages idolising Adrian. Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years is the fifth book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. The book was first published in 1999 by Michael Joseph. It is set from April 30, 1997 (the run up to Pandora's election as MP) until May 2,"
"Adele Morales Adele Carolyn Morales (June 12, 1925 – November 22, 2015) was an American painter and memoirist; she is best known as the second wife of American author-playwright Norman Mailer. Morales was born in New York City, to a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father. She grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded ""The Village Voice"") and briefly with Jack Kerouac. Mailer's biographer Mary Dearborn says of those days:"
"Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years is the fourth book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. It focuses on the worries of the, now, adult Mole. The book was first published in 1993 by Methuen. It is set in 1991 to the first part of 1992 and Adrian is 23¾ years of age. The book covers the same themes as the first volumes and continues the regular format of a diary. The book charts the progress of Adrian's wavering love life; he begins infatuated, as ever, with Pandora Braithwaite, with whom he is"
"amateur status. At the end of her diary, a poem of hers is published in the Times, which criticizes the lead up to the Iraq war. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel (as opposed to ""Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians"" and the Guardian serial). It is set in 2002/3 and Adrian is 33¾ years of age. The life of the protagonist is covered for one year, with a short epilogue that jumps to a time"
"Mother: Lorna Moon"". Fellow writer Carol Easton (author of ""No Intermission: The Life of Agnes de Mille"") remarked: ""None of Richard de Mille's extraordinary relatives, not even the legendary Cecil B. de Mille himself, could have invented this riveting true story of celebrity, passion, betrayal, and tragedy"". Richard de Mille Richard de Mille (February 12, 1922 – April 8, 2009) was an American author, investigative journalist, and psychologist. He was born in Monrovia, California, to William C. deMille, (whose first wife was Anna Angela George, the daughter of notable economist Henry George), and the Scottish author and screenwriter Lorna Moon."
"from when her eldest child was five. Because the Department of Social Security was unable to give her even 50p to tide them over, she was obliged to feed herself and her children on a tin of peas and an Oxo cube as an evening meal. Townsend would collect used Corona bottles, to redeem the 4p return fee by which to feed her children. Aged 13, her son questioned one Sunday why they didn't go to animal parks on weekends like other families. She later recounted that it was the start of her writing which became the Adrian Mole books,"
"Leicester International Short Film Festival is an annual event; it commenced in 1996 under the banner title of ""Seconds Out"". It has become one of the most important short film festivals in the UK and usually runs in early November, with venues including the Phoenix Square. Notable arts venues in the city include: Leicester is the setting for the fictional diaries of Adrian Mole, created by Sue Townsend. In the early books he lives in a suburb of Leicester and attends a local school where he first meets ""the love of his life"", Pandora Braithwaite. After a period of years"
"Edita Morris Edith (Edita) Dagmar Emilia Morris, born ""Toll"" (5 March 1902 – 15 March 1988) was a Swedish-American writer and political activist. Edita Morris was born in Örebro in Sweden. Her parents were Reinhold Toll, an agronomist who had published books on dairy and cattle farming, and Alma Prom-Möller. The Toll family was well known in Sweden. Her grandfather was a general. She grew up in Stockholm as the youngest of four sisters. When she was still a child her father left the family and emigrated to England. She married in 1925 the journalist and writer Ira Victor Morris"