In a 2013 interview, Townsend discussed her intention to wrap up the series in two further volumes, but acknowledged her declining health might make this plan impossible. Adrian Mole is an unforgettable character, but one that will resonate with many young people as they approach or reach puberty.

I don't think there is any need for a synopsis from me, as I suspect most potential readers of this book are much like myself in having read it in their youth and looking to pick it up again for nostalgia's sake.It includes some content in diary format, some letters between Barry Kent and Adrian, Adrian’s talks on radio, and several poems.

Instead, he finds himself the child of a mother who lives big, loves big, wears bright colors and makes friends wherever she goes. In his debut diary entry, on 1 January 1981, his very first words were “I will help the blind across the road”. This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. A year and a half is inexplicably 'lost' before the next update, and the time line also seems to have gone wandering - a year and a half has passed according to the dates, but only six months according to the diary itself. Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War.

There is a much greater emphasis on letters and diatribes, some purporting to be read out While he is not very popular, he has a girlfriend in Pandora Braithwaite and a small circle of loyal friends. George fathers a second son, Brett, by a lover, Doreen Slater, whom Adrian privately refers to as "Stick Insect". Eventually Adrian moves into his parents' converted pigsties, along with Marigold's sister Daisy, whom he marries.