Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new double edition featuring the first two
books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy
growing up in the early 1980s. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault
for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to
have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be
in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole a hapless teenager providing an unabashed
pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Telling us candidly about his parents' marital
troubles The Dog his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual' his love for
the divine Pandora and his horror at learning of his mother's pregnancy Adrian's painfully
honest diary is a hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of misspent adolescence. Features the
complete texts of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3 4 and The Growing Pains of Adrian
Mole.'I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary'
David Nicholls '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 'Every sentence is witty and well
thought out and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times 'Townsend has held a
mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph 'One
of the great comic creations' Daily Mirror 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran
