Adrian Mole

Adrian Mole faces up to his own mortality in a bleakly funny new volume of diaries, says Lorna Bradbury Adrian Mole: the Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend For those of us who have grown up with Adrian Mole, from the agonies of adolescence...

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...that has weakened the bones in her legs and feet and means she has to use a wheelchair. Still, she continues to bash out the diaries of Adrian Mole, and has just published a ninth instalment, The Prostrate Years. She began writing about her...

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...''The True Confessions and The Wilderness Years, as well as a bonus not available separately, "Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians". Adrian Mole From Minor to Major (i.e. from being a child to the years of the John Major government)...

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...however, is no blessing, and the effects follow the sisters into adulthood. A disturbing first novel. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend Adrian's life is almost an alternative history of our times. He's coming up to the big...

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I've written before here about the impact that Sue Townsend's comic Adrian Mole novels have had on my life since I was a young teenager, so it'll come as no surprise to learn that I was completely delighted by the latest volume, Adrian...

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...Brings Down The Warehouse Video (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)... More. I've written before here about the impact that Sue Townsend's comic Adrian Mole novels have had on my life since I was a young teenager, so it'll come as no surprise to learn that...

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...Content Subscription with the Edinburgh Evening News site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Adrian Mole a The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend is published in hardback by Michael Joseph/Penguin,...

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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, a novel by Sue Townsend, is the second book in the Adrian Mole series, following on from The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾. It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage (supposed)...

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...of a widespread lack of information and support which leaves people feeling isolated. Sue Townsend - who wrote the best-selling Adrian Mole series - has a condition called diabetic retinopathy. In 1999, she was registered partially...

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...Trewin, who edited the diaries. "He becomes a friend and a real person." It was part Brideshead Revisited, part the Westminster Hour, part Adrian Mole. Mr Clark wrote in the preface to his first volume: "Diaries are intensely personal - to...

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