The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (1982)

Adrian’s dated entries record his ambition to be an intellectual alongside things he does not yet understand about his family. The discrepancy gives an ordinary household a second story that the diarist cannot deliberately tell. Read the small changes and apparent irrelevancies: his confidence is part of the evidence. A comic, accessible introduction to the difference between an honest record and a fully informed one.