Adrian Mole collection 8 Books set. (Sue Townsend Adrian Mole series collection set.) (The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾, the Growing pains of Adrian Mole, True confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Adrian Mole: the wilderness year, Adrian Mole the cappuccino year, the lost diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001, Adrian Mole and the weapons of Mass Destruction and Adrian Mole the Prostrate year)

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In the SIXTH book in Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic series, Adrian, Leicester's most unlikely ex-con, faces the nit-infested reality of being a single parent . . .

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In 1989 Townsend published Mr Bevan's Dream – Why Britain Needs its Welfare State, one of the series of Counterblast essays written by such authors as Paul Foot, Marina Warner and Fay Weldon which critiqued, either directly or indirectly the social consequences of Thatcherism. Adrian Mole's royal wedding diary, by Sue Townsend". The Guardian. London. 17 April 2011 . Retrieved 24 July 2013.

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Gladys Fordingbridge is the elderly regular host of the group. She is the only woman. Her living room is cluttered with cat hairs and photographs of distant relatives. Her poems consist entirely of sub- Pam Ayres cat poems, one of which, entitled 'Naughty Paws', managed to rhyme ' Whiskas' with 'discus'. When her poems are eventually published it gives Adrian an excuse to expel her from the group as it is 'for amateurs only'. Gladys happily leaves the club. Elizabeth Sally Stafford (née Broadway) is a girl in Adrian's Science class. Elizabeth had a crush on Adrian and had a fight with Pandora over him in the playground. She re-appears in The Lost Diaries when she visits a newsagents Adrian is in at the time. When Adrian asks her if she lives on the estate (which he does), she replies with "Of course not! Do I look like a nutter?" It is mentioned in Weapons of Mass Destruction that she now owns an interior design company. Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults (Phoenix Arts Theatre, 1982) now known as the Sue Townsend Theatre

Adrian Mole collection 8 Books set. (Sue Townsend Adrian Mole

The fifth book in his hilarious diaries, where Adrian faces divorce, fatherhood and (short-lived) television stardom . . .

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He fell in love with his future wife, Pauline Sugden, and they married, having a son, Adrian. Pauline rejected their child for a year, leaving George to look after him, something Adrian never knew until he was middle aged. George took a job selling electrical storage heaters, but he is later made redundant; he later finds re-employment maintaining the banks of the local canal. George, Pauline and Adrian lived together at their house on Wisteria Walk, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.

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Mrs. Brown is Brown's wife. She is a pretty woman, but dresses in bad taste and is rather vacant-headed. Adrian feels sorry for her, as she is oblivious to her husband's affair.Professor Frank Green is the man occupying the flat underneath Adrian's. He is a professor of science and works at Leicester University. He is a kind, middle-aged man who is more sympathetic than Mia, Adrian's upstairs neighbour. He helps Adrian carry his talking refrigerator from the car park to his flat. He and Mia get agitated at the loud volume at which Adrian plays his music.

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Michael Flowers is the husband of Netta, father of Daisy, Poppy and Marigold and grandfather of Gracie. Michael owns a shop on Leicester High Street, County Organics, selling flower seeds. He votes conservative. He wears his hair in a ponytail, to the point where his granddaughter describes him as "a lady with a beard". Michael is a devout believer of all things organic, and does everything he can to prevent using fossil fuels. He invents a product, Orgobeet Juice, but it is rejected by Dragon's Den, much to his disgust. Michael has three daughters: Daisy, Poppy and Marigold. Daisy is the product of his first marriage to the Mexican Conchita, who left him; Poppy and Marigold are the products of his second marriage to Netta. He is an enthusiastic counter-tenor of the local madrigal society. He hates people from and all things to do with Mexico. Michael has a sister and a nephew.

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Richly comic ... stuffed full of humour, tragedy, vanity, pathos and, very occasionally, wisdom' Guardian