An absolutely hilarious and wonderful book in the format of a series of diary entries in the year of the life of a 13 year old boy in Thatcherite England. Adrian Mole is deeply vulnerable and a real twerp in equal measures. The novel begins early in the year as he’s awaiting his 14th birthday. Recent television viewing has convinced him that’s an intellectual, he’s deeply in love with a classmate named Pandora, and he’s witnessing the strange phenomenon of his mother helping to nurse […]