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Sue Townsend
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11 Aug 2000
End of Century Mole. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of current family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't BBC1 produce The White Van, his serial killer comedy? Will the Millennium Wheel EVER turn? Will Pandora Braithwaite MP become Blair's favourite babe? Will Pauline Mole throw caution to the winds with a pre-millennuim fling? Will George Mole regain his erectile function? And will Adrian himself find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent, and celibate novelist?


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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (11 Aug 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140279407
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140279405
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 2.6 x 18.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (96 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 161,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes:
Heinz Tomato Soup,
(with white bread floaters)

Grey Lamb Chops
Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes
Dark Brown onion gravy

Spotted Dick à la Clinton
Bird's Eye Custard

Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers
Nescafé
After Eight Mint

he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now a shining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. But underneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the same dysfunctional mess that made Adrian's Secret Diary an instant bestseller--his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression. Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on his penis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to be done).

Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence;

Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it Vivienne Westwood?' he murmered.
'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'.
'You clever thing', he crooned.
it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at the Brent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in a police compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Mole fanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments that punctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age.

Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only really important question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? --Lucie Naylor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Sue Townsend was Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s with THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4 and THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE. She lives in Leicester.

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I take up my pen once again to record a momentous time in the affairs of men (and, thank God, because this is intended to be a secret diary, I am not required to add 'and women'). Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Adrian Mole is a national treasure 22 Oct 1999
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Someone should slap an English Heritage plaque on the cover of The Cappuccino Years. Because not only is this one of the funniest, most bittersweet books I have read for ages, and a more than worthy successor to the other Mole books, Sue Townsend has written about Britain in the late 90s more accurately than any other recent writer I can remember. It takes a brilliantly satirical look at Blair's Britain, the spin doctors, the Cool Britannia tag, the over-priced restaurants, the decline of the nuclear family, and so on. She has said that the new Labour government is like a cappuccino - all froth and very little substance. Well, this book is all substance, but with loads of froth to make you genuinely laugh out loud. Her comic timing and sense of wit is as great as ever. This isn't just a comic masterpiece, it's quite simply a stunningly good look at what life is like in our country today. Adrian ends the book with two sons, no home and no job, and I can't wait to see where he's at when he's forty. More please!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Adrian Mole - Modern History 11 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
I would agree that, at first, the style of this book deviates from Adrian's first diaries in that the entries are really long-winded (and less funny), but perhaps that's deliberate (and that Townsend is showing Adrian trying to be more of a "writer", which he is renownedly crap at). It also coincides with a time in Adrian's life when he seems to have more time to write lengthy nonsense. Later in the diary, when he's more busy with "real life" tasks, his entries become shorter and more personally reflective (and therefore, more funny).

What I think is brilliant about these books is remembering the era I grew up in. Adrian, as always, chronicles current events in his diary: such as Princess Diana's death and the new Blair government coming to power, and makes statements about these events, thus recording history in a way that portrays, more than most, how the "ordinary person" viewed those times. It then becomes more like a discourse of modern history - which I think is great. It's like having a (modern) 'memories museum' in book format. Fantastic!

The Sunday Telegraph says it best - Townsend 'has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it'.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Is it me? 13 Mar 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with any of the previous reviews. I tried hard to get into this book, as I loved the original Adrian Mole's Diary (Aged 13 3/4), but I just didn't find it funny! The only bit that I giggled at, was the thought of the 'New Dog' perched on top of the cushion that was too big for it's basket! I'm beginning to wonder if it's just my sense of humour that's failing. If that's the case, I apologise again.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Mbknees
Yes another Sue success. Poor Adrian goes through the mill yet again. I would be a manic depressive if I were him.
Published 11 days ago by mbknees
5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny
Purchased for my kindle, funny read, made me chuckle. This series did not disappoint. Didn't realise there were more than the teenage years.
Published 2 months ago by E1OVO
5.0 out of 5 stars Adrian Mole The Cappuccino years
Another great book in the life and times of Adrian. Can only recommend this as a very funny read and do not have anything negative to say about it at all.
Published 3 months ago by Rosie
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as the rest
Usual high quality high brow humour with interesting background events in recent history. Brings Adrian in the 2000s nicely. Can't wait to read the rest.
Published 4 months ago by Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Great read very funny. Love the fact that this book can still make me laugh out loud, and even cry with laughter.
Published 4 months ago by M. Hall
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
I love this book sue townsend has created yet another hilariously funny book in the series. Adrian Mole is a strange boy who doesn't have a clue what to do with himself constantly... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Ruby-Lily
4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing and entertaining
I raced through this book, it's very easy to read and very entertaining. Sue Townsend is back to her best with this book. Pity it's not a bit longer really.
Published 12 months ago by nicdigby
2.0 out of 5 stars didn't like it
I started reading this as it was our book group book. After 30% I decided I was not benefitting in any way by reading it, I was not enjoying it so I gave up.
Published 13 months ago by Ms. C. L. Emanuel
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good condition
My book arrived on time. Arrived with the same condition, very good, as it was described by the seller.Well packed.
Published 19 months ago by Laia
1.0 out of 5 stars A sitcom in a book that used to be something deeper.
I love the first two Adrain Mole books. They were a huge comfort to me when I was in secondary school. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2011 by Elster
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