Public confessions of a middle-aged woman aged 55 3/4 Book

After being chatted up over a splendid meal by British culinary queen, Delia Smith who, at the time was the official spokescook of supermarket giant Sainsbury's, Sue Townsends agreed to write a regular column of about 800 words in their new magazine: 'The Magazine'.

If like me, you weren't shopping in Sainsbury's ten to fifteen years ago, you can still catch all Sue's witty, frank and often poignant musings right here in this book. 'The Public Confessions of a Middle-aged Woman' is a bulging collection of those Sainsbury's columns all wrapped up in one neat package that you can dip in and out of with ease.

It doesn't matter that the events mentioned in the book happened over a decade ago, because the writing remains sharp and humorous throughout. It's the human touch that Sue gives each article, which makes them so easy to relate to.

Whether it's her poor relationship with the domestic appliances in her house, or the fact she seems to be the most burglarised person I have ever heard of, every time I put this book down I couldn't wait to pick it up again. It's stuffed full of slices of life as experienced first hand by Sue herself and is totally worth every penny paid to download it to Kindle or put it on your bookshelf.

I was a huge fan of Sue's Adrian Mole books when I was a teenager but hadn't read anything of hers since. However, on the strength of this book alone I've added all her recent stuff to my wishlist, the first of which - 'The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year' I'm already reading.