'Just like me, Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend was ahead of her time' 🟠 As the Comedy Women in Print prize posthumously commemorates the beloved writer, comedian HelenLederer celebrates her brilliant wit
I was one of those teenagers who wrote secret, excruciating poems myself , so it was especially heartening to learn that Townsend wrote secretly for 20 years before her success. Her work offers a witty, prophetic commentary, making her ahead of her time – even Ben Elton wasn’t satirising the Queen and feminism in quite so much detail onAdrian’s musings on Margaret Thatcher were deliciously didactic: “I’m not sure how I will vote. Sometimes I think Mrs Thatcher is a nice, kind sort of woman.
Understatement, observation, and satirised social pretentiousness spill out of any of her novels – which, as I discovered, also make great teaching tools. On the few rare occasions I’ve been invited to teach comedy novel writing, I’ve been eternally grateful for this material, especially when trying to demonstrate witty narrative as opposed to picking it apart, which is a killer. Most of us want to be inspired by laughing rather than overawed with apparent technique.
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