English novelist Sue Townsend, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books, has died aged 68. Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946 and left school at 15 years of age. She married at 18, and by 23 was a single parent with three children. She worked in a variety of jobs including factory worker, shop assistant, and as a youth worker on adventure playgrounds. She wrote in secret for tw... Read more