Sue Townsend

The Adrian mole Diaries

incorporating

Sue Townsend The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend The growing pains of Adrian Mole

Since the publication of the hilarious and hugely popular The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, Adrian Mole has won the hearts of millions. With the publication of the sequel, The growing pains of Adrian Mole, his popularity only increased. Both books have been hailed as classics to delight three generations of readers.

Here for the first time are the two together. These diaries see Adrian through the worries of being an undiscovered intellectual and the traumas of adolescent love and on to the greater disasters of crises in his parents' marriage and life on the Social Security. The whole is at once painfully accurate and richly comic.

The Adrian Mole diaries have become something of a national institution, causing the 1986 Domesday Book Exhibition organiser to remark 'After the Bible and Diary of Adrian Mole, Domesday is probably England's most famous book'. On that assessment, the first and second volumes of The Adrian Mole Diaries, now available together; constitute England's second most famous book.