If you liked Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole books…
… and are looking for further sharp-witted diaries well worth investigating, we recommend you try reading these:
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones’s Diary follows a year in the life of thirty-something singleton Bridget as she battles with her fluctuating weight, cigarette count and encounters with smug marrieds. Her attempts to meet the right man and ensuing embarrassments are hilariously detailed and will keep you glued to the page with delight and empathy.
George & Weedon Grossmith: The Diary of a Nobody
Gifting us with the term ‘pooterism’, George and Weedon Grossmith’s The Diary of a Nobody charts city clerk Charles Pooter’s gaffes and self-important behaviour. Beginning as a serial in Punch, the diaries of Mr Pooter provide a clever satire of 1880 society, taking a swipe at the English class system and sending up crazes for spiritualism and bicycling as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody.
Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Prostate Years