The material offered to the reader was published in the English magazine “New Statesman” with the following introduction: “These passages, entitled “The Intimate Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts at the Age of Fourteen Years and Three Months,” were found between the pages of an old edition of “The Greengrocer's Guide.” in the city of Grantham in a junk shop and presented to the editor of the New Statesman magazine, Sue Townsend.