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Sue Townsend introduced the world to Adrian Albert Mole, an intellectual (in his own mind) working-class teenager from Leicester. His diary entries cover the early 1980s, documenting his parents’ failing marriage, his unrequited love for Pandora Braithwaite, his spotty skin, and his attempts to write poetry.