8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her. See image Sue Townsend
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house. See image Sue Townsend
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. See image Sue Townsend
I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors. See image Sue Townsend