Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Adrian Mole, Book 8

By: Sue Townsend

Narrated by: Kris Marshall

Sunday 1st July:

NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you are a prisoner, an MP, or a member of the Royal Family, you are exempt.

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well.

The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent....

This laugh-out-loud final chapter in Adrian's story will have you hooked from the very beginning as you discover what he gets up to next.

©2009 Sue Townsend (P)2024 W F Howes Ltd

Missing him already

Her most mature book yet. Bernerd is the most lovable character she created. Loved Pandora's growth and Daisy's Daisiness. Disliked Gracie and Glen's repeat question as to "why we are fighting in Afghanistan", but, over all, a masterpiece almost close in quality is the first book in the cannon.

Miss Adrian already. Hope someone writes a fan fiction continuing the story.