The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat '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 Praise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): 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. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Next year I could be in a children's home. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Now they battle enemies with twisted magic where their secrets are a liability.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction. But being away from the front lines doesn’t mean Sully’s safe. So when Elliot has the opportunity to recruit Sully to the secret elite unit of magical soldiers he leads, he’s willing to risk everything for the man he’s fallen in love with in dreams. And when dream-Sully begs him to keep coming back, something Sully would never do while awake, Elliot can’t resist that either.Īs real life draws them into battle, their shared dreams become a refuge that only Elliot recalls. The urge to rescue Sully is impossible to resist. Elliot assumes it's a one night stand and nothing more, until he awakens in Sully’s nightmare. On their last night of freedom before shipping off to training-military and magic-Elliot and Sully indulge in an explosive, emotional night together.

That, and a lifetime of fending for himself, has left him guarded. Stubborn, fiercely independent Warren “Sully” Sullivan is an illusionist with a secret of his own: he feels the emotions of others as visceral sensations. He can also wake in the dreams of people he cares deeply for. But that's only part of his magical abilities. Idealistic, aspiring poet, Elliot Stone can make people feel euphoria or horror with a simple touch.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend