Adrian Mole is now twenty-three years and nine months old, a melancholic, lonely young man living cramped in a small room of the apartment of the beautiful and intelligent Pandora, his eternal beloved, who barely tolerates him.

He works at the Ministry of the Environment and is responsible for the department of tritons, a species he has started to loathe.

(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]