Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Family Life Fiction

Author: Sue Townsend

An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of current family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won’t BBC1 produce The White Van, his serial killer comedy? Will the Millennium Wheel ever turn? Will Pandora Braithwaite MP become Blair’s favourite babe?….Read More

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