- Hardcover: 391 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph; Sixth Impression edition (14 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718143671
- ISBN-13: 978-0718143671
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,295 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,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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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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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
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
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
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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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 29 days ago by nicdigby
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 1 month ago by Ms. C. L. Emanuel
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 7 months ago by Laia
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 16 months ago by Elster
disappointing
I was a little disappointed with this book, bought for as a book club exercise, rather than through choice. Read more
Published on 9 May 2010 by J. Staplehurst
Nah... less funny
I guess it's ok, but I only laughed out loud max two times - and this is supposed to be the longest book yet. Not nearly as funny as The Wilderness Years and The Small Amphibians.
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This is a great book.
If you are a fan of the Adrian Mole books you have to read this it is about adrian mole aged 30.
A great book and well worth the reed, Also a very funny book :)
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If you have red the past Adrian Mole books you have to read this it is about adrian mole aged 30 1/4.
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