num_pages: 304
description: Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary - an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenage Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign - all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.
language: English
title: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
titlecomplete: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
genres: Young Adult, Childrens, Novels, Coming Of Age, Teen, Adolescence, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, British Literature
ratings_count: 2955
series: Adrian Mole
publisher: Bt Bound