The Adrian Mole Diaries: Sue Townsend

Incorporating: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. Adrian Mole faces the same agonies that life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary - an earnest and charming rollercoaster chronicle of longing and disaster - an outrageous triumph of deadpan - and deadly accurate - satire. From his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate to his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse...to ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign...Adrian Mole is the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.