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 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."