Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
by Sue Townsend
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 . . .
Black clouds over Mangold Parva
Saturday 2nd June 2007
Black clouds over Mangold Parva. It has been raining since the beginning of time. When will it stop?
MAJOR WORRIES
1. Glenn fighting the Taliban in Helmand Province.
2. The bookshop only took £17.37 today.
3. Up three times last night to urinate.
4. The Middle East.
5. Do my parents have an up-to-date funeral plan? I can’t afford to bury them.
6. My daughter, Gracie, showing alarming Stalinist traits. Is this normal behaviour for the under-fives?
7. It is two months and nineteen days since I last made love to my wife, Daisy.
Featured in this book:
Letters by Adrian Mole
Poems by Adrian Mole
Praise for Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years:
Daily Mail (Books of the Year)A tour de force by a comic genius and if it isn’t the best book published this year, I’ll eat my bookshelf
The TimesEffortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy
Sunday TimesUnflinchingly funny
Daily TelegraphBrilliant, sharp, honest, moving, an exquisite social comedy
Praise for Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years