Book
True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
Author:
Sue Townsend
Publisher
: Penguin
ISBN:
9 780141 0 10854
True
confessions of Adrian Mole is a brilliant humour by author Sue Townsend. These
are diary pages of a boy of 16, living in gloomy Great Britain, a less than
middle class existence. And all his conversations, aspirations, fantasies,
fears and retorts are poured out from his heart onto the pages of his diary.
The
diary opens up to a pre christmas scenario. Adrian is waking up to the dreary
possibility that Santa and Christmas is losing all its charm and he is not
going to get any gifts. He was made to
sit through 2 hours of dreary carols and a nativity play. He has to spend
Christmas with his “lousy inbred relatives from Norfolk” and he wonders is it
because he is “too worldy, mature and literate” that Beaonos Annuals humour
doesn’t appeal to him anymore?
Adrians
diary also mentions very heavily his love, his princess Pandora. Some of
Adrians friends didn’t celebrate Christmas “as Mrs Thatcher took their jobs”.
Adrian also puts down in his diary the
letters to his penpal Hamish and the peoms, in praise of Pandora, he sends to
BBC “if the would like to air them”
This
and the other books of Adrian Mole series are a laughter riot and a very
understated gloomy humour. I am a fan of author Sue Townsend.
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