Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years is the eighth book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. She suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001, and had woven this theme into her work.

Four of author, playwright and humourist Sue Townsend's (1946-2014), best selling Adrian Mole stories from the 1980s. His loyal friend and co-worker Bernard Hopkins comes to the rescue, moving in with him and promising to remain until his cancer is in remission.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

He also tells of his obsessions with being cool, his self-absorption, getting rid of acne, and his terrible poems. As well as being an excellent character study over thirty years, the Adrian Mole series always has its finger on the political pulse, starting under Margaret Thatcher (“I was looking at our world map. However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Mole book entitled The Prostrate Years, which was released in 2009. It also made me feel sympathy for Adrian Mole because he was a such believable character - a lot like other kid/adolescents I know. He also claims that his life is still not as happy as he would like, but 'that is another story' – suggesting that there is another diary to come.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 is one of my all-time favorite series, and while I know not everyone will be able to appreciate the voice of this kid, I find that I just can’t get enough. My mother found them; they were hidden under a crumb of fruitcake”) and self-evident in The Weapons of Mass Destruction. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole” the second novel of the “Adrian Mole” series of novels sees Adrian still battling against the travails of growing up.It is at this point that Adrian Mole lays down his pen, saying that “Happy people don’t keep a diary”, only to pick it up again in Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (the title taken from the fact that Adrian has problems with his prostate and, true to his nature, is chiefly annoyed by people pronouncing the word with an extraneous ‘r’) to record the fact that “it is two months and nineteen days since I made love to my wife, Daisy”. Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years is the fourth book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. Set in 1981 and 1982 amongst the referenced the historic events of The Falklands War, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana as well as the birth of Prince William. He’s a little jealous of his best friend Nigel, because of all of expensive stereo equipment and his brand new racing bike.