Sue Townsend
By Jessica Stewart
Sue’s Family
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Sue was the eldest of 5 children.
She was born in Leister on 2nd April
1946. She was married at the age
of 18 to a man named Colin and had
three children.
How did Sue become Blind?
• Sue suffered from an illness of diabetes. A
few years ago tiny blood vessels in her eye
started to leak across her retina. She then
had laser eye treatment to try and stop the
vessels but then her vision became blurry.
Two years ago she became partially sighted
and from that she became blind.
Some of her Books.
• Here are some of the series or books that
Sue wrote. Rebuilding Coventry,The Queen
and I,Ghost Children, Number Ten and
Queen Camilla. She also wrote a series of
Adrian Mole, Adrian Mole:The Wilderness
Years, and Adrian Mole:The Cappuccino
Years.
Some of Sue’s Plays.
• Here are some of Sue's play scripts – The
Ghost of Daniel Lambert, Captain
Christmas and the Evil Adults, Bazaar and
Rummage, The Secret Diary of Adrian
Mole, Ten Tiny Fingers and Disneyland It
Ain’t.
About Sue.
• Sue left school at the age of 15. She
worked in a variety of jobs including
factory worker, shop assistant and joining a
writers’ group at the Phoenix Theatre,
Leicester. At the age of 35 she won the
Thames Television Play write Award for
Womberang.
Thanks For Listening!
• Thanks for listening to My Project on Sue
Townsend. I hope you enjoyed it!