The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series Sunday July 18th My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy I pushed my sausages away untouched In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries the Mole family is in crisis & the country is beating the drum of war While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy & even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones & the fickle whims of the divine Pandora a victim of a broken home & his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains & pleasures of a misspent adolescence Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades' Funny moving & a poke in the eye for adult morality' Sunday Express ' Written with great verve & showing an uncanny understanding of the young Sue Townsend holds the balance between innocence & precocity & the result is both hilarious & salutary' Daily Telegraph ' Life's no fun for an adolescent intellectual For the reader it's a hoot' New Statesman Sue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen & I Queen Camilla & The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers Sue passed away in 2014 & is survived by her husband four children ten grandchildren & millions of avid readers