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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years [Kindle Edition]

Sue Townsend (Author)
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Thank heavens for Sue Townsend ... she has an unrivalled claim to be this country's foremost practising comic novelist. --The Mail on Sunday

Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation. --The Times

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The brand new edition of the hilarious eighth book in the brilliant Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years.

Sunday July 1st.

NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you a lunatic, 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 live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well.

The 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 Sh*t). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent . . .

'A tour de force by a comic genius and if it isn't the best book published this year, I'll eat my bookshelf' Daily Mail, Books of the Year

'Effortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy' The Times

'Hilarious. Comic gold' Sunday Times

Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Since the publication of The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 in 1982, she has made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. Seven further volumes of diaries have followed: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years. All have been acclaimed bestsellers, some have been adapted for radio and TV, starring Lulu, Julie Walters and Stephen Mangan, among others. She has also written six other popular novels (The Queen and I, Queen Camilla, Number Ten, Rebuilding Coventry, Ghost Children and The Woman Who Went to Bed for A Year) and penned many well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 765 KB
  • Print Length: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (5 Nov 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B002VISNK8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #5,543 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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47 of 50 people found the following review helpful
By Grouse
Format:Hardcover
I opened the package containing this book less than 24 hours ago and have just finished it. Despite work the next day, I found myself still reading at two this morning! What is it about the Adrian Mole books that are so absorbing? The sagas of his family and friends are both hilarious and emotional and it is fascinating to see some of the minor characters last heard from years ago as children reappearing as adults. The books also map out the major events of the last 3 decades and capture the zeit-geist of the different eras: the 80s, 90s and now the Noughties.

I don't wish to give a summary of this book here - suffice it to say, the trials and tribulations of 2007/2008 are all mentioned and it looks as though poor old Adrian gets the short straw once again.

Will our hero (I think anti-hero is a bit unfair) now forty, ever write something someone actually wants to publish, find someone to share his life with who isn't going to abandon him and stand up to the various "friends", relatives and petty officials who make his life a misery? Will his parents ever grow up or remain teenagers in pensioners bodies?

It's a pity I read this so fast because I'll have to wait another 4 years until the next instalment comes out. That's assuming Sue Townsend is planning on one. If she isn't she's left one almighty cliff-hanger ending!
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
By BookWorm TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Sue Townsend proves yet again that she is one of the funniest novelists writing today. The latest installment in the Adrian Mole series sees our protagonist nearing the age of 40, living with his wife and daughter, and suffering not only from his ever-dysfunctional familiy, but also from prostate cancer. Despite the awfulness of his disease - which Townsend in no way plays down - the book is still laugh-out-loud funny throughout. I can't think of any other writer who combines heart-wrenching pathos with genuine humour so effectively. Somehow, the sadness makes the funny bits funnier, and the humour makes the tragedy all the more painfully real to the reader.

Adrian is still very much the same person as the teenager Townsend first introduced many years ago. Many of the other old favourite characters are there too - older, but not necessarily wiser. There is Pandora, Labour MP and still the secret love of Adrian's life; his parents, George and Pauline, now elderly but still keen to appear on the Jeremy Kyle show; Adrian's unlikely best friend Nigel - gay, blind, living with his guide dog and civil partner; and of course Glenn, Adrian's eldest son, currently fighting in Afghanistan. Others, however, are notable by their absence; the Braithwaite parents and Barry Kent don't get more than a mention.

There are plenty of the usual satirical side-swipes at modern society which make you both laugh and wince. Townsend cleverly incorporates many of the newsworthy events from 2007 and 2008 without it ever seeming forced - from the collapse of Icesave and Woolworths to MP's expenses and post office closures. Townsend has a gift for capturing the spirit of an age and using real-life events in her books in a realistic way. If you read Sebastian Faulks' 'A Week In December' - a novel set in a similar time frame - you will admire Townsend all the more for her skill in writing about everyday life in the 21st century. Faulks may be a serious-literary-heavyweight type but Townsend outperforms him effortlessly in this genre.

I read this book in the space of a weekend, hardly able to put it down, and was left wishing it was longer. Quite probably the best thing I've read all year. Definitely one to add to the Christmas list!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Utterly superb 9 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover
Another extremely funny, extremely touching installment of the Mole saga, which continues to build into something utterly magnificent. The subtle but deadly accurate social/political satire remains spot on, as Mole enters the era of the credit crunch and increasing global uncertainty. (At least Woolworths will always be with us, he muses at one point.) The characters just get stronger and stronger. I wondered if Sue Townsend could write anything as wonderful as Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, but she has done so here. Her comic abilities continue to mature as Mole grows older and (slightly) wiser. It's so good that you have to force yourself not to read it in one sitting.

The ending is left wide open. Is it too much to hope for another volume?
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Not the best but still great!
I'm a massive Adrian Mole fan and have recently re-read all the books in the series before reading this for the first time. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Freethinker
Cracking Holiday Read
I picked this book up on my first day of my holiday to Crete, I finished it 2 days later, now, that's not a bad thing, oh no, the Mole series has captivated since I read thirteen... Read more
Published 9 months ago by EFISH
Another FAB read
Took this on honeymoon and read it on the flight. its totally true to form and a brill read. has happy and sad bits which i was not expecting from the mole series.
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I PREDICT A HAPPY ENDING! NEXT TIME?
The normal helping, but as always well written, entertaining, and funny, of the downward spiral of world's unluckiest man. Read more
Published 12 months ago by DOPPLEGANGER
i love adrian!
Wow love it ~ the characters are as familiar as your own family. Great to check up on every member of adrians family and his good friends. Alison S
Published 15 months ago by alistokes
Good, but not quite as good as the early books
I enjoyed this book quite a lot when reading it and must agree with other review comments about not being able to put it down. Read more
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misleading
the book is funny but in my oppinion facts have to be true and not misleading,especially when dealing with a very common and sensible subject as Prostate Cancer. Read more
Published 16 months ago by P. Jonas
Wonderful Funny Read
Not having read any Sue Townsends books before I was thrilled to discover what a great witty writer she is. This book is very easy to read, simple but funny. Read more
Published 17 months ago by chloe
Adrian still has growing pains after all this time
I have always loved Adrian Mole. I grew up with him and have fond memories of laughing myself sick over the first book and loving each additional volume as it came out. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
Another brilliant Adrian Mole dairy
If you're a fan & have read them all then you'll buy this anyway. If you're a new reader to Adrian Mole - I'd start at the beginning but you could pick this up & not be left... Read more
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