The Diary of a Nobody the first, "The Diary of a Somebody", is a direct reference to the Grossmith original. Reviewing this volume in "The Spectator", Benny Green points out several parallels with the original, in both character and event. Matthew's book, says Green, is amusing, but the Grossmiths' book is superior; it is "affecting as well as comical, in a way that the Matthew pastiche is not". In 1982 came the first appearance of Sue Townsend's teenage creation, Adrian Mole, whose passage into young manhood and early middle age is charted in a long series of diaries. The more middle-aged he becomes, says Morton,
Gian Sammarco and trained as a nurse and is now a psychiatric nurse at the Berrywood Hospital in Northampton. The couple divorced in 1998. In 1998 he subsequently married Joanne Young, a nursing colleague, and continues to live in Northampton. He subsequently divorced Joanne and married Pina Ruocco. Gian Sammarco Giancarlo "Gian" Sammarco (born 30th January 1970) is a former child actor best known for playing the title role in the television dramatisations of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾" (1985) and its sequel, "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole" (1987). Born in Northampton, England, the son of Jacqueline and