The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

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The final book ends with Adrian finding out he will be a grandfather and Pandora arriving outside the house.

Set contemporaneously, as all the diaries are, it fills in two of the gap years between Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years and Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction. However, in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, it is stated that his name was Arnold, and as Arthur in Weapons of Mass Destruction. Through Adrian's diary, we hear him speak openly about spots, girls, school and a troubling family life: all the time, convinced that he is a genius and that nobody in the world can possibly understand him. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole” the second novel of the “Adrian Mole” series of novels sees Adrian still battling against the travails of growing up.Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora; Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. This must be why diary books are at their most powerful when you are a pre-teen or a young teenager: battling through puberty, everyday life, and trying to figure out who you are and want to be. And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. If for nothing else, then, this re-issue is a fine reminder that there was life after high school for the poet of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office.

The first book in the Adrian Mole series, this was a publishing sensation back in the 1980s, but still has the power to entertain pre-teen, teen and even adult readers, and make them double up with laughter.Townsend also published a collection of Monthly columns in the “Sainsbury Magazine” titled “The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman” in 2001. Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend was a British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. The story is set in 1981 and 1982, and in the background it refers to some of the historic world events of the time, such as the Falklands War and the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana as well as the birth of Prince William. Adrian is asked out in science class by one Elizabeth Sally Broadway, her daughter with husband Colin Broadway, and Adrian and Pandora see a pantomime starring Carole Hayman as the Princess, Sue Pomeroy as Widow Twankey and Lou Wakefield as the cow; all three of whom were regular collaborators of Townsend’s work on stage. I think a younger reader would get this book more than I do, as I find some teens in books to get very irritating now.