Sue Townsend | Adrian Mole, The Prostate Years
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend is the eighth and final instalment in the much-loved diaries of one of British fiction's most enduring comic characters. Adrian is now thirty-nine and a quarter, living in a converted semi-detached pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter, while his parents occupy the adjoining half. His second-hand bookshop is threatened with closure, his marriage has lost its spark, and increasingly frequent nocturnal trips to the bathroom suggest that he may have more serious problems to face.
As financial worries, family chaos and familiar disappointments accumulate, Adrian finds himself thinking once again about his old flame Pandora Braithwaite, now an MP and Junior Minister. Yet beneath Townsend's unmistakable wit and sharp observations of British life lies one of the most poignant chapters in Adrian's story. Funny, tender and characteristically self-deprecating, The Prostrate Years confronts ageing, illness, marriage and disappointed ambition while giving the celebrated diarist a moving and memorable final chapter.
- • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
• Language: English
• Cover: Paperback
• Year of publication: 2010
• Number of pages: 404
• Weight: approximately 310 g
• Genre: Humorous fiction, contemporary British fiction, satirical novel, fictional diary






