The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

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Following Sue Townsend’s death in April last year, JK Rowling led the numerous celebrity tributes, revealing that the author “gave me so many laughs”. For example, Mr and Mrs Mole's divorce reflects rising divorce rates in the 1980s, and living together unmarried was becoming a norm.

However, he feels that he needs to adopt avant-garde or other high literary styles if he is to be taken seriously. The hilarious SEVENTH BOOK in Sue Townsend's bestselling series, sees Adrian fall in love, be inconvenienced by the war and face his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal . The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back in the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny, touching and bestselling Ad. Set in Leicester in the UK of the 1980s, the quibbles of the lead and the setting are all too familiar whether one is in London or Miami during those years.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. I particularly liked the part where Adrian's dad screamed on the phone to the school: "I've lost my wife, I've been made redundant from my job and you're suspending my son from school just because he wore red socks. She suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001, and had woven this theme into her work. In an interview in the Guardian with Kate Kellaway in 2010, Sue said that “the only way I’ll kill Adrian is when I die myself”. When Hattie is sent to her room for being sick in her step-father's fish tank, she decides to start writing a diary and sort her life out.

In 2011, Townsend published a short Adrian Mole piece that tied into the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Photograph: FremantleMedia Ltd / Rex Feature View image in fullscreen Gian Sammarco starred in the Thames TV version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾. While his mother heads to Greenham Common with her women’s’ group, his interest in getting into politics is heightened alongside his distaste for the Iron Lady of British Politics – Margaret Thatcher. I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe' A satire of our times. A new stage musical adaptation by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary opened at Leicester's Curve in March 2015.George fathers a second son, Brett, by a lover, Doreen Slater, whom Adrian privately refers to as "Stick Insect". Knowing that my brother Colin is an Adrian fan, I thought I’d suggest him as a more suited recipient.

However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Mole book entitled The Prostrate Years, which was released in 2009.Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. There is a much greater emphasis on letters and diatribes, some purporting to be read out When Adrian Mole decided to start a diary at the ripe old age of thirteen and three-quarters, he had no idea how far his words would reach. The original 1982 Radio 4 series had the infamous teenager named Nigel Mole, but this was changed for the novel in to avoid confusion with Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle’s schoolboy creation Nigel Molesworth.

Sue first wrote Adrian as 14¾ , however her radio editor John Tydeman suggested that greater physical changes occur a year earlier, hence the change in age. Glenn Bott-Mole, son of Sharon Bott, whom Adrian knew at school and had an affair with as a young man. Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major brings together the three best selling volumes of Adrian Mole's diaries for the 1980s - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The Growing Pains of Adrian Albert Mole and True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole - with Adrian's previously unpublished diaries for 1989 and 1990. The series featured a theme song "Profoundly in Love With Pandora" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads and starred Gian Sammarco as Adrian Mole with Julie Walters playing his mother and Lindsey Stagg as Pandora Braithwaite. Despite opposing personalities, the siblings enjoy a close relationship, and Adrian often feels that she is the only family member who understands him.In a reversal of a typical teenager-mother relationship, Pauline berates Adrian for keeping his room "like a bloody shrine". The second theme is depiction of the social and political situation in Britain, with particular reference to left-wing politics in the 1980s in the first three books.