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THE QUEEN AND I - SUE TOWNSEND KARTONIERT (TB)

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 13¿   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.

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