Sue Townsend Books

Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday and upcoming musical, at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s. from publisher's description

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British teenager Adrian Mole records the ups and downs of adolescence in his diary.

Fifteen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. Now the past revisits her with a vengeance. Fifteen years later the child's father, Christopher Moore, cannot quite forget his grief, longing and sense of loss. Living alone on a drab council estate, he is a burnt out man without a job and only a bull terrior for company. Christopher has turned his back on the world and has given-up on life. While out walking his dog one morning, Christopher makes a shocking and touching discovery in a ditch. What he finds forces him to seek out Angela. Now in a desperate, loveless marriage to Gregory Lipton, Angela has never had the child she realised she wanted. When Christopher re-enters her life like a grim messenger, the couple renew a love and passion lost all those years ago.

Den nu 15-årige Adrians forhold til både forældrene og Pandora er stadig lige uroligt, og da familien bliver forøget med en lillesøster, føler Adrian sig efterhånden på kanten af desperation!

Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy . . . Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet . . .

All the Mole diaries in one volume, including material from the mature Adrian.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the flame. To cap it all off, Adrian is leaving his bed numerous times a night to go to the lavatory and has other alarming symptoms, leading him to suspect prostate trouble. Meanwhile, his mother thinks that an appearance on the Jeremy Kyle show might solve the mystery of her daughter’s paternity once and for all. And when George is asked to provide a DNA sample, will the shock kill him? He is already disabled, though still chain smoking and has had an ashtray welded onto the arm of his wheelchair. As Adrian’s worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite, BA, MA, PhD, MP and Junior Minister in the Foreign Office, ignites memories of a shared passion and makes him wonder – is she the only one who can save him now?

The latest diaries of this set-upon yet ambitious closet genius are hilariously hedonistic and marvelously moving. They are filled with the kind of soulful, scathing and sly musings all of us indulge in but would never divulge. The most disarming pangs and prevarications are laid bare for our amusement. Adrian Mole - misunderstood, maligned, and muddled - is a nerdy hoot. And oddly captivating.

Adrian Mole is a household name. THE SECRET DIARY has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is a modern classic. Now in Penguin for the first time, it is brought bang up to date for the 21st Century with an amazing new look, ready to make a whole new readership roar with laughter all over again.In THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE Aged 13 3/4 teenager Adrian writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. His painfully honest diary makes hilarious and compelling reading.'Townsend's wit is razor-sharp' Mirror