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,
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer to have these memories of him."), although she tentatively starts to believe her new memories: "I think it's real. I think it's real!". (The concept of repressed vs. implanted memories is later revisited in "The Secret History of Twin Peaks".) Especially her unwanted desires within herself have distressed her during many of her entries since she began writing her diary, as up to that point in April and June 1986 she has had no explanation for them and at a number of times throughout her diary, she expresses fear of God sentencing her to Hell for her impure urges regarding