A last minute cancellation by Adrian Mole meant that Sue Townsend had to step in to answer this week’s Shelf Life questions. She tells us which books she read as a child and what she would
title her own memoirs. Her latest book, The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year,
is out now.
1) What are you reading at the moment?
Nothing I am registered blind, I listen to plays and readings
2) As a child, what did you read under the covers?
Comics, Mad Magazine, P.G. Wodehouse, The William books, Jane Eyre, Little Women…
3) Has a book ever made you cry, and if so which one?
The Grapes of Wrath and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
4) You are about to be put into solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take two books.
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