Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years" is the fifth book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny " Adrian Mole" series. Wednesday August 13th. Here I am again
- in my old bedroom. Older wiser but with less hair unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line. Adrian Mole is thirty single & a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd'
- AA Gill) & celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?). & the love of his life Pandora Braithwaite is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- one of ' Blair's Babes'. He is frustrated disappointed & undersexed. But a letter from Adrian's past is about to change everything..."" Adrian Mole" really is a brilliant comic creation. Every sentence is witty & well thought out & the whole has reverberations beyond itself". (" The Times"). " One of the greatest comic creations. I can't remember a more relentlessly funny book". (" Daily Mirror"). " Three cheers for Mole's chaotic non-achieving dysfunctional family. We need him". (" Evening Standard"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight " Adrian Mole" books " The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 )" " 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. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up."