Sue Townsend dies after short illness

[Benjamin]

Novelist Sue Townsend, best known as the author of the highly successful Adrian Mole series of books, has died, a family friend has confirmed.

Townsend died at home on Thursday after a short illness.

The first of her comic series, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, was published in 1982 and the eighth instalment, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, was released in 2009.

Her other best-selling novels included The Queen and I.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26982680


:(

[Shaun]

Aw. I never read those books but I remember seeing them everywhere at school. R.I.P.

[Marsh.]

http://gatheringbooks.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/mole1.jpg

[Pete.]

Love Adrian mole :hug:

RIP

[Ammi]

..I just read this..68yrs really isn't any age..:sad:..

[arista]

..I just read this..68yrs really isn't any age..:sad:..


Thats real old




She will be missed

[arista]

She was sadly blind in her last years
[Townsend suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Townsend


On Radio 5 debate on her 9AM - 10AM
they said Adrian Mole should be part of course work
for kids that age.
She wrote that for adults when it first came out

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/TheSecretDiaryOfAdrianMole.jpg/220px-TheSecretDiaryOfAdrianMole.jpg

[Z]

So raging, I had her on my death list up until the 11th hour and then swapped her out. Rest in peace Sue Townsend

[Crimson Dynamo]

68 is not old, 96 is

i loved those books