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Sue Townsend


(Susan Lilian Townsend)
UK flag (1946 - 2014)

Sue Townsend left school at fifteen and started writing immediately. For twenty years nobody knew that Leicester housewife, Mrs Townsend, was a writer. She joined a writers' group at Leicester's Phoenix Theatre and was soon installed as the Writer in Residence there.

Townsend died at her home on 10 April 2014 aged 68, following a stroke.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction, General Fiction
 
Novels
   Rebuilding Coventry (1988)
   The Queen and I (1992)
   Ghost Children (1997)
   Number Ten (2002)
   Queen Camilla (2006)
   The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year (2012)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Sue Townsend recommends
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Rory's Boys (2011)
Alan Clark (Alan Robert Clark)
"Intelligence, warmth, bravery and wit."
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Sleeping Partners (2004)
Lou Wakefield
"A blissfully witty romantic romp."

Anthologies containing stories by Sue Townsend
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Magic (2002)
New Stories
edited by
Sarah Brown and Gil McNeil

Awards
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2000) : The Cappuccino Years
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year


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