Sue Townsend’s hilarious, insightful Adrian Mole stories are classics. Her razor-sharp wit and astute observations probably summed up the Eighties better than anyone else and there’s no doubt that her books will be read as avidly by future generations as they have been by ours. Like her legions of fans, I was saddened to hear the news of her death last night. I’m re-running this post from an interview she ...keep reading