Sad to hear about the death of Sue Townsend. She brought intelligent, humorous writing to a much wider public & made it a respectable thing to read.
Without Adrian Mole there would be no Celine Smith in Memoir of a Gothic Girl & certainly no Keith Ramsbottom in my current series. She may have suffered under the weight of expectation to keep milking the same cash cow but The Queen & I and several notable plays showed the extent of her range as a serious writer. A sad loss.