The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 - Softcover

Townsend, Sue

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9780141041384: The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141041382 ISBN 13: 9780141041384

Publisher: Penguin, 2009

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Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33).

Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from the notorious Gaitskell estate before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club?

In the meantime, Adrian continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents who are conducting a matrimonial square-dance with the Braithwaites - the parents of the beautiful but unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New Labour's first woman P.M. - and to confide in his diary.

His current worries include: indestructible head-lice; his raging jealousy when his accomplished half-brother Brett arrives on his doorstep; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; his mild addiction to Starburst (formerly Opal Fruits); a small earthquake in Leicester; and, perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium.

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Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the sixth book in his diaries where Adrian, Leicester's most unlikely ex-con, faces the nit-infested reality of being a single parent (from the publisher's description)

From the Back Cover:

'These diaries were lost when I moved from my modest council estate home back to my parents' equally modest home in Ashby de la Zouch.'

Confiscated for seven years by HM police - in the mistaken belief that they might incriminate the author - these diaries tell of Adrian Mole's lost years on the cusp of the second Millennium.

The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys alone in an uncaring world. With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become a Labour MP; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success as elusive as ever, Adrian tries to make ends meet.

But little does he realise that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror . . .

'One of the great comic creations of our time. Almost every page of his diaries brings a smile to the face' Scotsman

'Told with Townsend's trademark deadpan humour and cringe-worthy mishaps. To people of a certain age, Adrian Mole was their Harry Potter' News of the World

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