Get yourself TWO BOOKS IN ONE for this amazing price'I not only wept I howled & hooted & had to get up & walk around the room & wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe THE MUST-HAVE CHRISTMAS GIFT for devoted Adrian Mole fans Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new double edition featuring the FIRST TWO BOOKS in the hilarious collection & see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s--------------------------- Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today It's my mother's fault for singing ' My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs Just my luck to have a mother like her There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics Next year I could be in a children's home Meet Adrian Mole a hapless teenager providing an unabashed pimples-&-all glimpse into adolescent life Telling us candidly about his parents' marital troubles The Dog his life as a tortured poet & 'misunderstood intellectual' his love for the divine Pandora & his horror at learning of his mother's pregnancy Adrian's painfully honest diary is a hilarious & heartfelt chronicle of misspent adolescence Features the complete texts of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 34 & The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole 'I've never experienced a greater sense of recognition than when reading The Secret Diary' David Nicholls ' Every sentence is witty & well thought out & the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times ' Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation & made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph ' One of the great comic creations' Daily Mirror ' The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran