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
