The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Sunday July 18th
My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched.
In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy.
And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.
About the Adrian Mole Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4(1982)
- 2.The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole(1985)
- 3.The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole(1989)
- 4.Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years(1993)
- 5.Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years(1999)
- 6.Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction(2004)
- 7.The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001(2008)
- 8.Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years(2009)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Adrian has many desires and ambitions in life—to marry his teenage sweetheart, publish his poetry and novels, obtain financial security—but struggles in his ability to achieve them.
With painful, humorous, and compelling honesty, Adrian’s diary is filled with candid musings about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. His self-delusions and misguided assumptions ultimately reveal something meaningful, a combination which has made this highly regarded series a modern classic.