Your reading habits and frequent mangling of plots and ((frequently incorrect) knowledge about authors and poets is eternally entertaining. It's Christmas Day in the Mole house, and Adrian annoys his parents by inviting Bert and Queenie over for the day. He receives a racing bike as a present. Having been made redundant, Adrian's father George gets a job with Manpower Services as a canal bank supervisor. Adrian breaks Pandora's heart by having a brief liaison with a classmate, Barbara Boyer. Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians (all of which were contained in Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major) Your family-situation is completely effed. I love that your parents show disdain for you. I love that you are so completely polarizing and self-absorbed. Your diary is everything a teenager's reflections should be. Spot on, my friend. I am looking forward to watching your future growth and maturity. Mr Reginald 'Popeye' Scruton ( Freddie Jones) is Adrian and Pandora's abrasive and volatile headmaster, who is a huge admirer of the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Barry Kent ( Chris Gascoyne) is a bully at Adrian's school who beats Adrian up in exchange for money, until Adrian's grandmother puts a stop to it.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It began in 1985, and starred Gian Sammarco as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's father George Mole and Julie Walters as Adrian's mother Pauline Mole. Adrian dedicated himself to his baby sister Rosie Germaine Mole. One night hism other got a phone call from a friend named Lucas and all Adrian heard is the two of them talking about some kind of a blood test. One day George’s mistress waited for Adrian outside his school. She told him that she can’t live with his father anymore and that she’ll be moving in with her ex-husband that has money now and that she’ll marry him as soon as he leaves his wife. I’d recommend reading this book because Adrian Mole is such an amusing and unique character. There are lots of laugh out loud moments and you can learn a lot about British culture too. It’s also written in a colloquial, informal style so you can find plenty of phrasal verbs and everyday expressions. The diary format of the book means the sentences aren’t overly long and complicated, making it suitable for intermediate learners too.

Adrian Mole – 15 years old boy that has problems with girls, acne, parents, bullies and so on. He is also tormented by questions about moral and social injustice. He asked himself why do grownups say one thing and do the different. He felt rejected by his parents because they always let him know that they’re not satisfied with how he turned out to be. He worried about growing up and the life after finishing high school. He wrote poems but no one understood them, not even BBC who always declined his work. His relationship with his parents is not ideal and he only had one man to man talk with his dad. Even though he seemed cold on the outside Adrian was very sensitive and that side of him is shown in the relationship he had with Pandora and the way he took care of his little sister. Megan Harris is Brown's secretary. She and Brown are having an affair, but Megan entraps Adrian into the role of her only confidant. Megan briefly ends the affair when Brown forgets her birthday, but Brown cycles her to house in the middle of the night and Megan starts the affair again. Megan starts seeing Bill Blane on the side, and the pair are suspended on full pay when Brown catches them in the act of photocopying their private parts. Adrian later suspects her of giving his letter of resignation to Mr. Brown. George leaves the family home, and Adrian and his mum face straitened circumstances. With her Giro cheque three weeks late, Pauline takes an extreme course or action...Adrian experiences many different emotions, he grows up and enters the adult world. He describes his relationship with his parents that are far from ideal and in the end he runs away from home. That kind of behavior is typical for a teenager. He felt the courage to stand up to his parents for the first time. Adrian describes his life in poorness and paints the image of a 80’s family. All of the events are written from his perspective. Finley-Rose is Glenn's fiancée and mother of his child (unborn as of 2008). She is very clever; she corrects Glenn on his frequent grammatical errors and gets on well with Adrian. She and Glenn meet in a nightclub, and communicate through the bouncer, Tiny Curtis. During Glenn's next spell of leave they spend Christmas 2007 with her grandparents in Scotland, where Glenn proposes. She is a pretty girl, and Adrian is glad that Glenn has managed to find someone so pretty for him. This book continues the theme from the first book of Adrian's growing frustration with his body. He constantly writes about the "spots" that mar his complexion, and he also has self-esteem issues about his height and physical maturity. Adrian Mole is an outsider who feels the reason he can't quite fit in with "regular" society is that he is an intellectual. Evidence from his diary entries include a precocious interest in literature, in left-wing politics, a desire to have his own poetry show on the BBC, his dislike of Margaret Thatcher and his frequent critiques of his less-refined schoolmates and family. Adrian's dysfunctional family, as in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, is one of the focal points of the book. Gary Milksop is the extremely sensitive, effeminate and over-the-top member of the LRWG. He is the author of an epic (unfinished) experimental novel that he has been working on for fifteen years: his first experience of eating a Hobnob. The other members of the group are kinder to him, as Gary cries if he gets criticism.

Susan Mole, better known as Auntie Susan, is the daughter of Albert and Edna, sister of George and aunt of Adrian. She works as a prison guard at Holloway, and always gets Adrian's birthday wrong. Susan, a lesbian, is first seen dating Gloria, but a reference is later made of her marriage to a woman named Amanda. Susan gave advice to Nigel Hetherington when he was planning to tell his parents that he was gay; she said "I just came out with it. 'Mum, I'm gay. Like it or lump it.' Minus the screaming and shouting, it was over in two minutes", to Nigel's response of "Oh, how brave!". Susan always sends Adrian birthday cards which he describes as 'vulgar!' and 'in extremely bad taste'; one example is a Christmas card she sends him with "the carrot in the wrong place". Susan has two great-nephews, Glenn and William, and a great-niece, Gracie. She smokes Panama cigarettes. Christian Palmer is Adrian's live-in landlord/boss. An undercover popular-culture academic with three precocious children and a babysitting problem. He wears his hair in a 'late-period Elvis' style and has a laugh like a barking dog. He keeps studying popular culture, but keeps getting into narrow scrapes and receiving injuries. This book was touching, as well as hilariously amusing. It exhibited a great understanding for adolescent life, making the storyline so interesting and engaging. I couldn't fault this book, I was utterly hooked and read it in two days! It showed subtle hints at the differences between Adrian's huge problems, and their devastating effects, and his parents' life shattering financial problems. This book made me laugh out loud and was sharp as knives. Adrian’s parents drank and smoked a lot and all of the money was spent on cigarettes and alcohol. Adrian has a strange relationship with his parents and they regret Adrian coming out the way he did. Pandora sent Adrian a letter saying she’s leaving him and he also wrote her a letter but wanted to deliver it in person. When he came to her house he saw many luxurious cars and it seemed like a party was going on.Sharon Bott (occasionally Botts) is Adrian's second girlfriend and the mother of his first child. She is introduced in Growing Pains as the girl who "will show everything for 50p and a pound of grapes", but Adrian has an unsuccessful date with her set up by Nigel. In True Confessions, Adrian has lost his virginity with Sharon, but it is obvious that neither of them has any interest in the other beyond sex. Sharon starts putting on weight, and she is referred to as overweight in the later books. After it is proven that Adrian fathered Glenn in Cappuccino Years, Sharon re-enters Adrian's life; they maintain a good relationship as parents of Glenn. It is revealed that she has seven siblings, including an older sister, Marjorie, and younger brother, Karak. Her parents are still alive. Mr. Bott is a quiet, polite man, unlike the rest of the Bott family. As Sharon ages, she gains more and more weight until she is described as obese. A character in Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland named Sharon Slagg, based on Sharon, is mentioned. While Sharon is still seeing Adrian, she starts seeing Barry Kent on the side, leading to confusion over who Glenn's father is - a blood test revealed that Adrian was indeed the father. Declan and Caitlin O'Leary are the heads of an Irish family over the road from the Mole family. Mr. O'Leary is a drunk and Mrs. O'Leary is a gossip. They have at least three children; namely Brendan, Sean and Bridget. In addition, Brenda Cowling appeared in two episodes as the formidable matron of the Alderman Cooper Sunshine Home, in which Bert and Queenie were residents before their marriage. Humour arises from the outworking of larger social forces within a very ordinary household in a very ordinary part of Middle England. Alpha, Griffith and Tamzin Palmer are the children of Christian and Cassandra. They are afraid of their mother. Christian escapes from her by taking himself and the children to visit his mother in Wigan, leaving Adrian home alone with Cassandra. They are very advanced children; Griffith, only five, has a reading age of thirteen.

Malcolm is the severely under-educated dish-washer during Adrian's stint as head chef at Savage's. Malcolm is not especially bright, but Adrian appreciates his friendship. When a cat that looks uncannily like the Downing Street cat, Humphrey, appears at the restaurant it is Malcolm that takes it in and lavishes it with expensive playthings and food. Malcolm christens the cat 'Humfri' as he only understands phonetic spelling. He is a labour supporter. Adrian Mole ( Gian Sammarco) is the main character of the series and also serves as narrator. His character on screen is shown wearing spectacles as well as wearing ties often when not at school, points not mentioned in the book.Also he gets involved with the questions of moral and social injustice. Parents should be the guidelines for their children and tell them what to do but Adrian understands that his parent’s behavior is far from good and he knows on his own that he does not want to end up like them. He wants to stay faithful to Pandora and take care of her and his future family. He understands that cigarettes and alcohol aren’t a good choice in life because they are a waste of money and they could leave him without his meals and clothes for school. Find sources: "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole"TV series– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)