Editing Sue Townsend (section)

===Death===
Townsend died at her home on 10 April 2014, eight days after her 68th birthday, following a [[stroke]].<ref name="BBC1104AMST"/><ref name="Eady">{{cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/author-sue-townsend-dead-adrian-3399021|title=Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend dies aged 68|last=Eady|first=Piers|date=11 April 2014|work=[[Daily Mirror]]|access-date=11 April 2014}}</ref> [[Stephen Mangan]], who portrayed Adrian Mole in the [[Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (TV series)|2001 television adaptation]], stated that he was "greatly upset to hear that Sue Townsend has died. One of the warmest, funniest and wisest people I ever met".<ref name="Eady"/> Townsend was survived by her husband, four children and ten grandchildren.<ref name="Thompson">{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Alan|url=http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Sue-Townsend-secret-writer-best-selling-author/story-20949154-detail/story.html|title=Sue Townsend: The secret writer who became a best-selling author|work=Leicester Mercury|date=11 April 2014|access-date=12 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413080444/http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Sue-Townsend-secret-writer-best-selling-author/story-20949154-detail/story.html|archive-date=13 April 2014}}</ref>