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.
A British teenager struggles to cope with the day-to-day problems of adolescence.
All the Mole diaries in one volume, including material from the mature Adrian.
ADRIAN MOLE is thirty-nine and a quarter, struggling to afford his riverside apartment and facing mounting debts. Forced to relocate to a dreary area near Mangold Parva, he now lives in a semi-detached converted pigsty next to his parents, George and Pauline. Adrian works at a second-hand bookshop owned by the aristocratic Mr. Carlton-Hayes, whom he wishes he could see as a father figure. His glamorous wife, Daisy, despises the countryside and longs for city life, both aware that their marriage has lost its spark but unsure how to revive it. Compounding his troubles, Adrian is experiencing alarming health issues, leading him to suspect prostate problems. Meanwhile, his mother is writing a fictional misery memoir about her childhood and believes an appearance on The Jeremy Kyle Show could resolve the mystery of her daughter's paternity. Questions arise about Mr. Lucas, their former neighbor, and the potential shock of a paternity test for George, who, despite being disabled, continues to smoke. As Adrian's concerns grow, a slightly tipsy call to his former love, Dr. Pandora Braithwaite, stirs memories of their past and leaves him wondering if she might be his salvation.
The Lost Years
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.
Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alike. In his secret diary, British teenager Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed in with daily reports about the zit sprouting on his chin are heartrending passages about his parents' chaotic marriage. Adrian sees all, and he has something to say about everything. Delightfully self-centered, Adrian is the sort of teenager who could rule a much better world--if only his crazy relatives and classmates would get out of his way. Sue Townsend's play is based on her internationally best-selling book, was created for the Phoenix Arts Leicester, where it received its first production in Septmeber 1984. This volume contains the complete text of the play with introductory notes on the staging by the author; the complete words of the lyrics and music for the melody line of each of the tunes.
Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. He’s engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group’s dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister’s wife is available. In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable—like so many people we know, but of course, not us—to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian’s dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny.
