Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Hardcover

Townsend, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718153707 ISBN 13: 9780718153700

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2009

Synopsis

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?

About this title

About the Author

Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

From the Back Cover

'A delight. Genuinly funny ... compassion shines through the unashamed ironic social commentary' Guardian

'Thank heavens for Sue Townsend ... she has an unrivalled claim to be this country's foremost practising comic novelist' Mail on Sunday

'Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating' New Statesman

'A great comic novel lit by Townsend's warmth and wit' Independent

'Hilarious. Sue Townsend's laughter is infectious' Sunday Telegraph

'To people of a certain age, Adrian Mole was their Harry Potter. Loveable in its celebration of mediocrity, it's told with Townsend's trademark deadpan humour' News of the World

'Our most successful chronicler of recent decades' Sunday Times

'He will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists. No matter what your troubles may be Adrian Mole is sure to make you feel better' Evening Standard

'Adrian Mole is one of the great comic creations of our time' Scotsman

Edition details

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718153707
• ISBN 13: 9780718153700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416