The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole

Description for THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE by Sue Townsend:

I can't wait until I am fully mature and can make urban conversation with intellectuals.

 


Growing up among inferiors in Great Britain isn't easy for a sensitive fifteen-year-old "poet of the Midlands" like Adrian Mole, considering everything in the world is conspiring to scar him for life: His hormones are in a maelstrom; his mother is pregnant (at her age!); his girlfriend, Pandora, is in shutdown; radio stardom isn't panning out; he's become allergic to non-precious metals; and passing his exams is as dire a crisis as the Falkland Islands.