THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SHOCK YOU MORE THAN THE FIRST CHAPTER . . . IS THE LAST. . .'I stayed up until 3am to read it because I was so sucked in. Brilliant, brilliant book!' 5* Reader ReviewJess and Heather were once best friends - until the night Heather's sister Flora vanished. The night that lies tore their friendship apart. But years later, when a brutal double murder shakes their childhood town, Jess returns home. Because the suspect is Heather. What happened to the girl you used to know? ___________'It has twist upon twist upon twist, and even then the final twist took me by surprise. So good!' 5* Reader Review'A riveting, edge-of-your-seat excitement fest - the plotting was so sinfully clever that I was kept endlessly guessing' 5* Reader Review___________Praise for Claire Douglas:'Thrillingly tense and twisty' B A Paris'Kept me up last night - scary, twisty, all too believable' Jane Corry'Tense, claustrophobic and gripping' Paula Daly

'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran

'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY

FEATURED IN 'THE 100 BOOKS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' BBC ARTS

The FIRST TWO BOOKS in the hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series from comic legend Sue Townsend.
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Friday January 2nd

I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home.

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life.

Telling us candidly about his parents' marital troubles, The Dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', his love for the divine Pandora and his horror at learning of his mother's pregnancy, Adrian's painfully honest diary is a hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of misspent adolescence.
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'I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary' David Nicholls

'Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times

'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph

'One of the great comic creations' Daily Mirror

THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE IS NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL

Features the complete texts of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¿ and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole.