Product Description

Adrian Mole is a household name. THE SECRET DIARY has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is a modern classic. Now in Penguin for the first time, it is brought bang up to date for the 21st Century with an amazing new look, ready to make a whole new readership roar with laughter all over again. In THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE Aged 13 3/4 teenager Adrian writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. His painfully honest diary makes hilarious and compelling reading. 'Townsend's wit is razor-sharp' Mirror

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100881 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Sue Townsend became Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s. As well as the Adrian Mole diaries, she is the author of seven other novels, including THE QUEEN AND I and most recently her collected journalism, THE PUBLIC CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN (Aged 55 3/4), which was published in 2001.

Customer Reviews

Absolutely brilliant or even blindingly brilliant
This book is so accurate it really captures the moment. It describes the 1980`s down to the letter. All of the doom and gloom which is all I can remember about those times. The book is so very funny, it will even make you laugh out loud. Sue Townsend managed to get inside the head of a teenage boy, she seems to know exactly what goes through there minds. Townsend is so accurate at times it would seem that perhaps she was a teenage boy. The diary form of book comes across well and leaves other books that have tried this format in its wake. A great read and very good if you want to reminisce on the old days and remember just how crappy they were.

WOW, Brilliant
I have had this book and have re read it for years! Sue Twonsends characters are so profound they are almost life like and I have grown to love Adrien! This book is very funny and explored the problems a boy may face during puberty. If you liked this book you will love all the others

"Teenage Years!"
This book is all about Adrian's problems as a teenager and his thoughts. It presents the different stages he goes through in two of his adolescent years - from his family affairs to his true love. We discover about his mother's affair with the next-door neighbour and we follow his progress of the two love birds, Pandora and the lead star of the book. Adrian is like any other average teenage boy; he squeezes his spots; he worrys about how he looks. And reads porn.
One of the funniest moments in the book is when Adrian paints his room black after having Noddy wallpaper for the past thirteen years. Yet after the end of his hard, Noddy's little red hat and golden bell still shines through.
This book gives us an insight of a teenage boy's mind.