Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years" is the fourth book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny " Adrian Mole" series. Thursday January 3rd. I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse as he slides down the employment ladder from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho he finds that critical reception for his epic novel " Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland" is not quite as he might have hoped. But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary & wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness... Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. "A classic. " The Adrian Mole" diaries are thoroughly subversive. A true hero for our time". (Richard Ingrams). "A very very funny book". (" Sunday Times"). 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."