The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

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A stage musical adaptation by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary opened at Leicester's Curve Theatre in March 2015. If you are not one of those and need more information about the book itself, there are many well written reviews here that will fill that requirement. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy.

I also remember laughing uproariously at almost every page, though I suspect my memory is definitely playing tricks on me there. Adrian Mole's painfully frank diary offers a glimpse into the tormented life of a 'misunderstood intellectual’ as he attempts to navigate the challenges posed by his parents' unhappy marriage, being a bully-magnet, acne and unrequited love. Re-issued with the charming original artwork from 1982, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 will rouse the nosta. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Very good copy in clean unmarked green boards, firmly bound with only very light tanning to text block. In dealing with political events, a constant plot device is that Adrian makes confident predictions and statements that are known to be wrong by the reader, ranging from belief in the Hitler Diaries to an Iraqi victory in the Gulf War and the existence of their weapons of mass destruction.

Instead, he finds himself the child of a mother who lives big, loves big, wears bright colors and makes friends wherever she goes. The other great thing about the Adrian Mole books (especially the first 2) where that they were a shared experience. deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho; he finds that critical reception for his epic novel; Lo! Though Sue was working on a follow-up at the time of her death in April 2014 – provisionally titled Pandora’s Box - his final entry was made on Monday 5 May 2008, revealing that he would become a grandfather at 41 and hoping that we would “live long enough to see this child grow up”.The book is firmly bound in dark green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, the extremities are slightly bumped and rubbed and the spine is a little cocked. Our Non-Fiction Range includes: Academic, Photography, Audio books, Business, Cook Books, Craft Books, Health and Fitness Books, Mind, Body, Spirit (Tarot). And to get out of math class, he agrees to help take care of elderly Bert Baxter and his fierce Alsatian Sabre. The first, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, was made by Thames Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 16 September and 21 October 1985.

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. He was just a kid growing up in Leicester, England, with acne and a crush and a bully and a crazy home life. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. For those new to the series, the first book to begin with is "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾".When the series begins, Mole is – of course – 13 ¾, and by the final volume (so far; Townsend’s only comment about the future is her hope that Adrian go “onward, ever onward”) he is 40 and a grandfather, and it is a great tribute to the series that the child is still recognisable in the adult. It was first performed at Phoenix Arts, Leicester and went to Wyndham's Theatre, London in December 1984.

When asked if she regards Adrian Mole as a millstone round her neck, Townsend was emphatic in her response: “authors who complain about the success of their most well-known characters are fools”. Separated into four parts - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole and Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians - the quality and tone sort of leaps wildly when you hit the halfway point and finish Growing Pains.If for nothing else, then, this re-issue is a fine reminder that there was life after high school for the poet of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Barbara was a social worker in Leicester at the time, who knew Townsend through her work, and clearly remained a fan as there are a couple of later newspaper cuttings loosely inserted. Three television series and the forthcoming musical adaptation leaves only the big screen as Adrian’s uncharted territory.