True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend - Softcover

Townsend, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749302291 ISBN 13: 9780749302290

Publisher: Mandarin, 1990

Synopsis

These further writings take Adrian Mole from the ages of 16 to 21, describing the young diarist's first job as a librarian, and his later role at the Department of the Environment, where he struggles manfully to preserve the Earth's ozone layer.

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Review:

Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the third book in his diaries, as 16-year-old Adrian navigates his way into adulthood (from publisher's description)

From the Back Cover:

'One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us' Observer

Monday June 13th
I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike.

Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without the slings and arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about . . .

Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham.

'Essential reading for Mole followers' Times Educational Supplement

'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: Mandarin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0749302291
• ISBN 13: 9780749302290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Holden Caroline