The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

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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. My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched.

The novel is actually Adrian’s diary and he writes every detail about his life in it, from his school troubles all the way to his house problems.

Your reading habits and frequent mangling of plots and ((frequently incorrect) knowledge about authors and poets is eternally entertaining. the Falklands conflict rages. Bert's swapped medieval squalour for a new bungalow, both Doreen and Pauline have alarming news tor George, and Adrian's mission to demystify the female form ends badly. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It aired from 5 January to 9 February 1987 and starred Gian Sammarco, as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's father George Mole and Lulu as Adrian's mother Pauline Mole.Adrian’s mother was pregnant and he wasn’t really happy about it. He received a letter from his American friend he met in Scotland and he told him that he was coming to visit. Adrian wasn’t thrilled when he was around because he went out with Pandora. His mother Pauline Mole wanted to move out because she didn’t think there will be enough room for the baby and also there was a suspicion that his father got another woman pregnant.

Amanda is Susan Mole's wife and Adrian's aunt by marriage. It is stated that she and Susan married shortly before the beginning of Cappuccino Years and that Adrian attended their wedding reception in the officers' social club at Holloway Prison. 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. Reading is a great way to boost your English. It’s fun, it’s an excellent source of new vocabulary, and you can become more familiarised with the grammar you’ve studied in class. Instead of learning vocabulary by looking up definitions in the dictionary, you can learn new words naturally through context, which gives you a clearer idea of how to use them yourself. It can also act as a good springboard for conversation between classmates. The Secret Diary and Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ Private Eye parodied the books with their The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as naïve and childish, keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his "Bastards Book", and featuring "my wife Norman" and " Mr Dr Mawhinney" as recurring characters. [11] In addition, Adrian Plass's novel The Sacred Diary of Adrian Aged 37¾ and his autobiography The Growing Up Pains of Adrian Plass parody the titles of two of the Mole books. Vincent, Alice (20 March 2013). "Adrian Mole diaries to come to end, says Sue Townsend". The Daily Telegraph. London.

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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.

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. At sixteen, Adrian Mole’s life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempestuous relationship with an alluring schoolmate tortures him, while his intellectualism continues to be ignored by the British press. Despite it all he remains as agonizingly funny as ever in this, the second of his diaries. At sixteen, Adrian Mole’s life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempestuous relationship with an alluring schoolmate tortures him, while his intellectualism continues to be ignored by the British press. Despite it all he remains as agonizingly funny as ever in this, the second of his diaries. [130]…more The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole #2) by Sue Townsend – eBook Details The story leads us to the life of 15 years old Adrian Mole. His father wants to go to war against Argentina and Adrian was suffering with a model airplane that got glued to his nose. Pandora came to visit him (she’s a few months older than him) but he couldn’t come out looking like he did.

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Barbara Boyer is another attractive girl, who becomes part of a love triangle between herself, Adrian and Pandora. After Nigel Hetherington tells the entire school about their affair, Boyer ends the saga. She appears for one appearance at the political party, but she argues with Pandora over China's significance, and Pandora asks Claire (who brought her in the first place) not to bring her again. At the school reunion, she is now a stunning woman on her fifth husband. In the final book, she holds her birthday party at Nigel's flat. Adrian stumbles upon the party when he calls in on Nigel, and for a couple of hours enjoys himself, and realises later that if he had not gone to Nigel's, he would not have known about the party. 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. 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. A new stage musical adaptation by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary opened at Leicester's Curve in March 2015. Townsend had been working with the writers on the project at the time of her death. [10]