Adrian Mole collection 8 Books set. (Sue Townsend Adrian Mole series collection set.) (The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾, the Growing pains of Adrian Mole, True confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Adrian Mole: the wilderness year, Adrian Mole the cappuccino year, the lost diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001, Adrian Mole and the weapons of Mass Destruction and Adrian Mole the Prostrate year)

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After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other forms. She enjoyed great success in the 1980s, with her Adrian Mole books selling more copies than any other work of fiction in Britain during the decade. This series, which eventually encompassed nine books, takes the form of the character's diaries. The earliest books recount the life of a teenage boy during the Thatcher years, but the sequence eventually depicts Adrian Mole in middle age.

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S.Townsend, Mr Bevan's Dream – Why Britain needs its Welfare State, Chatto and Windus, 1989, p.8. ISBN 0 7011 3468 2 Like most 13 ¾ year olds, Adrian has a burgeoning interest in sex. Oddly, he takes regular measurements of his private parts and records the continually varying results in a graph, that he hides in plain sight, on his wall, marked “Norwegian Leather Exports”. Now, that’s nerdy. He seems to interpret the results as a kind of barometer of how things are going in life. On one occasion he accidentally catches a view of his neighbour’s underwear, and remarks to himself that it is surprisingly sexy for a church-going, middle-aged woman. Symbolically, this represents Adrian getting a view beneath the respectable veneer of society and its treatment of sex. His attempts to hide his top shelf “girlie” mags from his mum were another touchstone of adolescence in the 1980s. Shrewd observations such as this, on I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe To mark the royal wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton, Sue Townsend wrote an exclusive Adrian Mole story for the Observer in 2011. [9] This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( December 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Elizabeth Sally Stafford (née Broadway) is a girl in Adrian's Science class. Elizabeth had a crush on Adrian and had a fight with Pandora over him in the playground. She re-appears in The Lost Diaries when she visits a newsagents Adrian is in at the time. When Adrian asks her if she lives on the estate (which he does), she replies with "Of course not! Do I look like a nutter?" It is mentioned in Weapons of Mass Destruction that she now owns an interior design company. Alison Flood (5 December 2012). "EL James comes out on top at National Book awards". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 December 2012. Mrs Parvez runs Kidcare, the nursery school that William attends. She regularly sends notes home with William, asking for money for various expenses. When William asked where birds sleep at night, Adrian and Mrs Parvez gave him different answers, and got into an argument with each other over who was right. Although Mrs Parvez disapproves of Adrian's parenting style, she has great sympathy for William; at one point getting angry when Adrian was very late and heartbroken William thought he had been abandoned. She is also a Liberal representative on the local council. It is unclear whether she is related to Adrian's friend Mohammed Parvez.

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Furness, Hannah (8 July 2014). "Sue Townsend's last hurrah". The Telegraph. London . Retrieved 7 August 2014. The second book to come out in the series was published in 1984 and is titled The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. Apparently it was based on the experiences her own children had and some characters in the book were based on real staff. The book did end up being adapted for television, with the first two books in the series becoming a t.v. series that aired in 1985 and 1987, as well as a video game.Collier, Kate (18 February 2005). "Leicester's leading ladies". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 February 2006 . Retrieved 1 February 2008. It is mentioned that Adrian's middle name, Albert, is after his paternal grandfather. However, in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, it is stated that his name was Arnold, and as Arthur in Weapons of Mass Destruction. However, he is simply called Grandad Mole. Adrian's maternal grandparents, the Sugdens, have never had their names revealed, although Pauline has two brothers, Dennis and Pete. Dennis married a woman called Marcia, and they had a son called Maurice, and Pete married a woman called Yvonne, who had died. Grandma Sugden had died twenty years previously, as of The Lost Diaries. Adrian's aunt, Susan Mole, appears in most – if not all – of the books. Susan is a lesbian and prison warden at Holloway Prison. In earlier books, she is dating a woman called Gloria, but later is married to another woman called Amanda. Mark B'astard is the estate agent who sells Adrian his Rat Wharf flat. It is when he goes to urinate that Adrian notices that you can see people's outlines when they are standing in the bathroom. Mark says to his client that it is the sort of flat he would like, but he has three children under five and Mrs. B'astard wants a garden. Bruce "Brainbox" Henderson is one of Adrian's friends who is good with computers. He starts the school magazine. In later books, he marries Adrian's ex-fiancée (and later sister-in-law) Marigold Flowers. Production of sequels was interrupted by Townsend's declining health. At the time Adrian Mole – The Weapons of Mass Destruction was published in 2004, Townsend stated it would be the last Adrian Mole volume. However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Mole book entitled The Prostrate Years, which was released in 2009. In October 2009 the Leicester Mercury featured an interview with Townsend where she discussed the new Mole book and her plans for future works. [2]