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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/SueTownsend died in April 2014 with [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26982680 another book unreleased]]. Whether it was completed or not is unknown.
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* DiedDuringProduction: Creator/SueTownsend died in April 2014 with [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26982680 another book unreleased]]. Whether it was completed or not is unknown.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Though they were not intentionally political, the early books feel like a comment on Britain under UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's rule. The political angle is more deliberately played up in later books.
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* CreatorBacklash: Townsend regrets letting Bert Baxter getting so old and feeling forced to kill him off at the age of 105.
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* CreatorBacklash: Townsend regrets apparently regretted letting Bert Baxter getting get so old and feeling forced to kill him off at the age of 105.(he was 105 when he was eventually killed off).
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** One publisher mistakes ''Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland'' as a parody of English literature. Ironically it is by far the best reception ''Lo!'' recieves.
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** One publisher mistakes ''Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland'' as a parody of English literature. Ironically it is by far the best reception ''Lo!'' recieves.receives.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Townsend struggled as a single mother trying to get government support for her children.
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* ChannelHop: The first TV adaptation appeared on ITV, while ''The Cappuccino Years'' was broadcast on the BBC.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sue Townsend Creator/SueTownsend died in April 2014 with [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26982680 another book unreleased]]. Whether it was completed or not is unknown.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Adrian is often behind the general pace of technology, preferring books to computers, handwriting rather than typing, using cheques instead of a debit card, writing letters instead of sending email.
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* ArtistDisillusionment: Lindsey Stagg, who played Pandora in the [=1980s=] television series, reportedly absolutely ''hated'' the experience, and it was her first and last acting job.
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** One publisher mistakes ''Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland'' as a parody of English literature. Ironically it is by far the best reception ''Lo!'' recieves.
** Miss Elf's Nativity play in the first book is an [[TotallyRadical updated for the eighties]] version that she uses to try and [[AuthorTract get political messages across]]. Adrian's father notes that it's the funniest thing he's ever seen and asks who came up with the idea to turn it into a comedy. Adrian keeps quiet, noting in his diary that [[{{Narm}} it wasn't supposed to be funny]].
** One publisher mistakes ''Lo! The Flat Hills Of My Homeland'' as a parody of English literature. Ironically it is by far the best reception ''Lo!'' recieves.
** Miss Elf's Nativity play in the first book is an [[TotallyRadical updated for the eighties]] version that she uses to try and [[AuthorTract get political messages across]]. Adrian's father notes that it's the funniest thing he's ever seen and asks who came up with the idea to turn it into a comedy. Adrian keeps quiet, noting in his diary that [[{{Narm}} it wasn't supposed to be funny]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Though they were not intentionally political, the early books feel like a comment on Britain under UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's rule. The political angle is more deliberately played up in later books.books.
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* RealitySubtext: Adrian's health issues in the final book are inspired by Sue Townsend constantly being ill with different things for the better part of the last 15 years. In particular at that point she was on the kidney transplant list.
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* RealitySubtext: Adrian's health issues in the final book are inspired by Sue Townsend constantly being ill with different things for the better part of the last 15 years. In particular at that point she was on the kidney transplant list. Nigel's blindness is an allusion to her own.
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* RealitySubtext: Adrian's health issues in the final book are inspired by Sue Townsend constantly being ill with different things for the better part of the last 15 years. In particular at that point she was on the kidney transplant list.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Though they were not intentionally political, the early books feel like a comment on Britain under MargaretThatcher's UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher's rule. The political angle is more deliberately played up in later books.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Sue Townsend died in April 2014 with [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26982680 another book unreleased]]. Whether it was completed or not is unknown.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Though they were not intentionally political, the early books feel like a comment on Britain under MargaretThatcher's rule. The political angle is more deliberately played up in later books.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Though they were not intentionally political, the early books feel like a comment on Britain under MargaretThatcher's rule. The political angle is more deliberately played up in later books.
