I remember the days when Sue Townsend was 'just' another English teacher in a Leicester state school.
My favourite was 'The Queen and I' - about the Royal family being sent to live on a Leicester Council Estate after a revolution. Hilarious - the Queen Mum getting drunk with her West Indian grand-mother next door.
Sadly Sue suffers from diabetes and is practically blind now- but still lives in the same Edwardian house off London Road- and is a real fighter.
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