Sue Townsend Boeken

In een dagboek geeft een 15-jarige jongen commentaar op zijn omgeving en op het wereldgebeuren ten tijde van de Falklandoorlog in 1982.

Op een dag dat haar neurotische tweeling het huis verlaat om te gaan studeren, giet de volmaakte huisvrouw Eva een pan tomatensoep over haar mooiste stoel en stapt in bed. Voor een halfuurtje, maar ze komt er niet meer uit. Terwijl ze aan haar bed gekluisterd is, moet Eva dealen met een stoet excentriekelingen die door haar slaapkamer paradeert, onder wie haar overspelige echtgenoot, een briljante wetenschapper die niet weet hoe een wasmachine werkt en wiens laaste verjaardagscadeautje aan zijn vrouw een staatslot was. De vrouw die een jaar in bed ging liggen is een geestig en ontroerend boek over wat er gebeurt als een echtgenote plotseling weigert te moederen, koken, wassen en een stappenplan voor de kerst te maken. Sue Townsend, verreweg de grappigste schrijfster van Engeland, heeft een schitterende roman geschreven die het moderne gezinsleven totaal ontkracht.

In dagboekvorm geeft een 13-jarige jongen commentaar op de moderne leefcultuur en de politiek. Dagboeknotities van een 13-jarige jongen die het leven op school en thuis niet makkelijk vindt.

Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday and upcoming musical, at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s. from publisher's description

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British teenager Adrian Mole records the ups and downs of adolescence in his diary.

Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways. However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each another again can they avoid the mistakes of the past? And will their future together be eclipsed by those mistakes of yesterday? A compelling fable of our times, Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue Townsend. 'Gripping and disturbing. Utterly absorbing.' Independent 'Startling and raw.' Observer 'Bleak, tender and deeply affecting. Seldom have I rooted so hard for a set of fictional individuals.' Mail on Sunday 'Leaves one gasping for more.' Daily Telegraph www.suetownsend.co.uk

Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy . . . Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet . . .

All the Mole diaries in one volume, including material from the mature Adrian.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the flame. To cap it all off, Adrian is leaving his bed numerous times a night to go to the lavatory and has other alarming symptoms, leading him to suspect prostate trouble. Meanwhile, his mother thinks that an appearance on the Jeremy Kyle show might solve the mystery of her daughter’s paternity once and for all. And when George is asked to provide a DNA sample, will the shock kill him? He is already disabled, though still chain smoking and has had an ashtray welded onto the arm of his wheelchair. As Adrian’s worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite, BA, MA, PhD, MP and Junior Minister in the Foreign Office, ignites memories of a shared passion and makes him wonder – is she the only one who can save him now?