Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year - Softcover

Sue Townsend

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718194527 ISBN 13: 9780718194529

Publisher: Penguin, 2012

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

Review:

"This is one of the most marvellous books I have ever read; the characters are brilliantly drawn, the dialogue sparkling and the quality of the prose is truly breathtaking - oh, and by the way it is also hilarious - I had to stop recording on several occasions because I was laughing so much I simply couldn't continue." Caroline Quentin (Narrator) "...it's very funny, with Caroline Quentin as the bonus." The Guardian "Caroline Quentin's reading... develops into a subtle and touching performance." The Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0718194527
• ISBN 13: 9780718194529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 437