Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Thursday January 3rd
I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have
no sex life. At least not with another person.
Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped.
But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness...
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.