Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Sunday 1st July
NO SMOKING DAY
A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you a lunatic, a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family you are exempt.
Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well.
The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent...
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.