Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Wednesday August 13th
Here I am again - in my old bedroom. Older, wiser, but with less hair, unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line.
Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd' - AA Gill) and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch - one of 'Blair's Babes'. He is frustrated, disappointed and undersexed.
But a letter from Adrian's past is about to change everything...
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.