An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce "The White Van", his serial killer comedy? Mole, aged 30 1/4, chronicles the closing years of the 20th century with slanderous abandon.
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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,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).
(with white bread floaters)Grey Lamb Chops
Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes
Dark Brown onion gravySpotted Dick à la Clinton
Bird's Eye CustardCheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers
Nescafé
After Eight Mint
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.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.
'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'.
'You clever thing', he crooned.
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
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Sue Townsend became Britain's bestselling author of the 1980s with her Adrian Mole diaries. She is the author of 7 other novels, including The Queen and I and Number Ten. She is also well known as a playwright, and 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 Browse Sample Pages
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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 Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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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!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By W. Hesketh
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'.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Fabulous! Everything said. The way that Sue Townsend portrays a thirty-something Capuccino aged person is marvellous. Brilliant storylines include the Great Mole-Braithwaite Partner Swop, his long lost son Glenn, to name but a few. Adrian still fits perfectly into his niche-long live Mr Mole. I can only hope the next book, A comic Novel is a sharply funny, mature and fantastic as Capuccino years is. Adrian may still be thirteen at heart, but he certainly appeals to a much wider audience.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
This was one of the best(if not the best),books in the whole series.Adrian is every bit as humourous as he has ever been.This book is guaranteed to have you howling with laughter within minutes.I was so gripped,i had to read the whole thing straight through from start to finish.Once i'd started it was impossible to put down.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole many years ago, when I was very young. Too young to understand or appreciate it, so recently I re-read it. I discovered a masterpiece! As a result, I read all the following books, and this is one of the best! Reading about Adrian growing up was a real pleasure and it is a shame there are no more books after the Cappucino Years. The campaign for a follow up Adrian Mole novel from Sue Townsend starts here!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
hello. I am a 13 year old boy living in Australia. Last year, a cousin of mine (we were both 12 at the time) introduced me to the Adrian Mole diaries. I instantly became wrapped up in it, and when I finally got my hands on the Cappuccino Years, I discovered it was the best Adrian Mole book yet.It's not a particulary long book in my opinion (I read it in two days) but it is still, in my opinion, the greatest book ever. I am absolutly praying that another Adrian Mole book is released in Australia. Adrian's employer is hilarious, as is Adrian's severe jealousy of Barry Kent, the skinhead poet. I have read the book 3 times, and I still laugh each time
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sue Townsend is a marvelous writer. With this character, Adrian Mole, that she has been following since his puberty, we have a funny, and satirical, yet very kind vision of England over the last thirty years. In this volume Adrian Mole suffers a loss of profession, a debut on Cable TV, a debut, with a ghost writer, in publishing, a divorce, a case of DNA-decided new son, and many other adventures, including the burning of his brand-new gift house. But the naivete and the apparent silliness of the character covers a deeper vision of society. The vision is this time very satirical, even if most of the time at a third or fourth level. He witnesses the arrival of Tony Blair and the first year or so of this new English politician. The man is new, the party is not, the solutions are not, just the man and the language, including a certain dimension of sexual innuendo to capture attention and obedience. Through the many pages of this diary, all kinds of typical English traits are presented, always defended, or nearly, but in such a way that we know there must be at least five tongues in ten cheeks. And that is probably the best aspect of this book. It is the tone of Laurence Sterne and his Sentimental Journey, though in this latter case France was at stake. But we have the same style and the same treatment of the matter. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Mbknees
Yes another Sue success. Poor Adrian goes through the mill yet again. I would be a manic depressive if I were him.
Published 1 month 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 3 months ago by E1OVO
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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 4 months ago by Rosie
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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 5 months ago by Dan
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Great
Great read very funny. Love the fact that this book can still make me laugh out loud, and even cry with laughter.
Published 5 months ago by M. Hall
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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 7 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 13 months ago by nicdigby
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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 14 months ago by Ms. C. L. Emanuel
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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 20 months ago by Laia
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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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