Adrian Albert Mole is born 2 April, with the first book establishing the year as 1967. He grows up with his parents in the city of Leicester; before moving to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in England's East Midlands. Adrian's family are largely unskilled working class/ lower middle class. He is an only child until the age of 15, when his half-brother Brett and half-sister Rosie are born. Adrian is not gifted academically but does tolerably well at school, though he does sometimes suffer the ire of headmaster "Pop-Eye" Scruton. Though not especially popular he has a small circle of friends and even a girlfriend Pandora Braithwaite (whose parents Ivan and Tania are affluent Trotskyites). At one point he falls into bad company with Barry Kent and his gang, who had bullied him in earlier years, but generally he keeps out of trouble. Throughout all this Adrian sees himself as an "intellectual" and a thwarted "Great Writer". [1]

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Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major (1991) is an omnibus of the first three, and includes as a bonus the specially written Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians. In a 2013 interview, Townsend discussed her plans to wrap up the series in two further volumes, but also the fact that her continually declining health might make this plan impossible. [5] Justine A lap-dancer at the Secrets Club in Soho who visits Mole at Savages, as a friend of Adrian's. She is known for a python act. For a short while she becomes the lover of Zippo Montefiori, who describes her thus: "She's a wanker's dream! She's a dislocated wrist! She's duvet heaven!".

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982), her best-selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s. Claire Neilson is Pandora's best friend. She is a beautiful yet snobbish type, who looks down on Adrian and is part of his and Pandora's political party, the Pink Brigade. Her cat is expecting kittens as of the first book. In Weapons of Mass Destruction, she appears at the school reunion as a worried-looking type who has lost her beauty and constantly worries about whether her children are in bed.

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A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the film or that the character's presence in the film has yet to be announced. This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( December 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Read as Adrian continues to struggle with his love life, endures a painfully awkward school play and contemplates the unsettling prospect of applying genital poultice . . .

Townsend had also been working on an Adrian Mole play to be produced at Leicester's Curve Theatre. The theatre plans to go ahead with the production, expected to open next spring. Producers there say it should be " an amazing tribute to the woman", the Telegraph reported. Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation. Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times The unfinished book would have been the ninth of Townsend's much-loved Mole novels, and had the working title Pandora's Box, the Telegraph reported. DMU students (11 July 2013). "Summer Graduations 2013". De Montfort University. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014 . Retrieved 11 April 2014.

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Like most 13 ¾ year olds, Adrian has a burgeoning interest in sex. Oddly, he takes regular measurements of his private parts and records the continually varying results in a graph, that he hides in plain sight, on his wall, marked “Norwegian Leather Exports”. Now, that’s nerdy. He seems to interpret the results as a kind of barometer of how things are going in life. On one occasion he accidentally catches a view of his neighbour’s underwear, and remarks to himself that it is surprisingly sexy for a church-going, middle-aged woman. Symbolically, this represents Adrian getting a view beneath the respectable veneer of society and its treatment of sex. His attempts to hide his top shelf “girlie” mags from his mum were another touchstone of adolescence in the 1980s. Shrewd observations such as this, on the part of Sue Townsend, are part of the reason that books were so successful.Kim Savage is Peter Savage's estranged third wife. Kim has filed for a divorce against her husband, and has gone to the lengths of appearing in the middle of the night, stealing several cases of expensive champagne and left. Savage loves his wife, but disapproves of her job "re-arranging twigs and flowers". Savage once gave Kim money for elocution lessons, but she kept the money and got free lessons from her friend Joanna Lumley - explaining Lumley's lifelong ban from the restaurant. Roberto is the head chef at Savage's when Adrian joins. By The Cappuccino Years, Roberto has left and Adrian is now in his place. Christina Patterson "Sue Townsend: 'I often write about my faults'", The Independent, 28 November 2008 The Queen and I (Vaudeville Theatre, 1994; toured Australia in summer 1996 as The Royals Down Under) Sue Townsend was working on a new Adrian Mole book, provisionally entitled Pandora's Box, before she died last week at the age of 68, it has been revealed.

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Luigi is the Italian maitre'd at Savage's. Luigi is a communist. He greets the guests and shows the guests to their tables. He and Adrian get along well. Luigi develops athlete's foot and is caught washing it in the sink by the health inspectors - violating seventeen of the two-hundred odd counts brought against Savage and his restaurant. Adrian's half-sister, Rosie Germaine Mole (after feminist Germaine Greer), grows up to be rebellious and street-smart, in contrast to Adrian. Despite opposing personalities, the siblings enjoy a close relationship, and Adrian often feels that she is the only family member who understands him. She also relies on him on occasion; when she becomes pregnant as a teenager, Adrian supports her decision to have an abortion.Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. 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. Courtney Elliot is the Mole's erudite ex-academic postman with a red-spotted bowtie and a ruffled shirt. He helped Adrian study for his GCE tests. He lends Pauline Mole a fiver when her giro fails to arrive. Susan Mole, better known as Auntie Susan, is the daughter of Albert and Edna, sister of George and aunt of Adrian. She works as a prison guard at Holloway, and always gets Adrian's birthday wrong. Susan, a lesbian, is first seen dating Gloria, but a reference is later made of her marriage to a woman named Amanda. Susan gave advice to Nigel Hetherington when he was planning to tell his parents that he was gay; she said "I just came out with it. 'Mum, I'm gay. Like it or lump it.' Minus the screaming and shouting, it was over in two minutes", to Nigel's response of "Oh, how brave!". Susan always sends Adrian birthday cards which he describes as 'vulgar!' and 'in extremely bad taste'; one example is a Christmas card she sends him with "the carrot in the wrong place". Susan has two great-nephews, Glenn and William, and a great-niece, Gracie. She smokes Panama cigarettes. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.", "None of the teachers at school have noticed that I am an intellectual. They will be sorry when I am famous."