One of the greatest comic characters. I cannot recall a more relentlessly funny book - Daily Mirror

My go-to comfort read. The best diary entries ever written - apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones, and myself - ADAM KAY

The fifth book in his hilarious diaries, where Adrian faces divorce, fatherhood, and (brief) television fame...

Adrian Mole is thirty, single, and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has come under fierce criticism ('the sausage on my plate could have been spared) and he is celebrated ('could he become the country's first famous sous chef?'). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. Frustrated, unsuccessful, and sexless, Adrian despairs until a letter from his past changes everything...

With her Mole books, Townsend has an unassailable claim to be the country's most significant comic novelist - Mail on Sunday

Adrian Mole is truly an extraordinary comic creation. Every sentence is full of humor and thought-out, and the whole resonates beyond itself - The Times

The funniest person in the world - Caitlin Moran

Three cheers for Mole's chaotic, non-achieving, dysfunctional family. We need him - Evening Standard

Pages: 448, Dimensions: 13x13cm