Sue Townsend, BookSource Staff: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 (2003, Turtleback)
English language
Published 2003 by Turtleback.
From book jacket: Adrian Mole is a worrier. The problems of existence hit him hard. Spots, bits of him that won't seem to keep still, the cracks in his parents' marriage, all prey heavily on his mind. There are some consolations. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift the gloomy introspection of Mole's moods. Mole believes he is an intellectual. He is certainly a poet. He buys strikingly coloured stationery on which to write his poems and send them to the B.B.C. He is dogged by ill health as well as by an infuriatingly ever-present pet dog, and by a catalogue of misfortunes familiar to anyone over the age of 13. ... Sue Townsend's original creation .. [is] a hilarious delight.
Une lecture amusante sur un jeune adolescent anglais qui grandit au fil des livres. Parfois touchant, souvent juste, toujours drôle !
Quite as good as everyone is saying! A light read with a charming humour, some harmless sexual innuendo, observations about the middle class, and sly remarks about the political climate of the day (being set in 1981).
