Flying over the Australian outback in a jet, looking down at the incredible orange scenery, the uninhabited hills and gullies, listening to Tchaikovsky on my headphones and drinking champagne with a cigarette in my hand. It was 1984, I'd been to the Adelaide Book Festival and was going back to my husband and my children.
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Sue Townsend
English writer and humorist
United Kingdom · 1946–2014
Arts and letters
About
Sue Townsend, 60, was born in Leicester. She left school at 15 and worked in a series of unskilled jobs. In 1978 she joined a writers' group at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester. Her first book, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, and its sequel made Townsend the best-selling novelist of the 1980s, and she went on to adapt Adrian Mole for both stage and television. She has suffered from diabetes for many years, and in 2001 was registered blind.
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Losing my independence.
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