The agonizingly funny, captivatingly poignant journals of England’s bespotted everyboy are now available again. An international phenomenon and perennial favorite since their initial publication made a splash in Thatcher’s Britain more than twenty years ago, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 ¾ is now side-by-side with its hilarious sequel The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole in this coll…
If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault. Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life.
Adrian Mole has grown up, but living at home, clinging to his cuddly rabbit, and still pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood is not quite what he thought it would be. Still, intellectual poets can't have everything their own way.