Though Adrian has finally found the courage to confront her, the literary parasite refuses to put down her Stolichnaya and come to the door. Now a professional turkey-plucker with his dreams of becoming a serious novelist more elusive than ever, and his teenage passions for Pandora all but faded, Adrian Mole has settled with his new wife in a rural pigsty that's spitting distance from his appalling mother and her (fourth, is it?) husband. There are two consolations: He has a son who fears gym class (poor little bird legs!), and he's readying his serial-killer comedy for production. But really, there's little about the twenty-first century that makes Adrian feel secure. Adrian Mole's continuing chronicle of angst has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide, and been adapted for television and staged as a musical.
"Over the past three decades, [Adrian Mole] has described the ordinary life of an ordinary man, providing a rich seam to be mined by future historians. They probably won't get some of the gags. . . but they'll be rewarded with a vivid portrait of the way we live now."
The Guardian
"Adrian Mole is one of the great comic characters of our time."
