Adrian Randall

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...If as a teenager you loved the Adrian Mole books, this is the one for you. Adrian is now a thirty something chef, a single parent and still hopelessley in love with Pandora Braithwaite! Pandora is now a Politician and Adrian still fantisizes constantly about her. Adrian gets his own tv series as a celebrity chef! The book is very light reading and will have you in stitches. The book finishes on a cliff hanger with plenty of opportunities for a follow, so what I want to know is when is the next one out Sue?... Read review

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Advantages: Hilarious
Disadvantages: Some people think it is too similar to old books

...Adrian Mole is now 30 ¼ and it is May 1 1997. Adrian’s life is very different from the last time we met him. He is now a celebrity offal chef and he has one, maybe two sons. However, some things never change - he is still worrying and has still failed to get his novel “Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland” (renamed “Birdwatching”) published. Pandora is now a prospective Labour MP, Barry Kent is a novelist and prize-winning poet, Adrian’s father is unemployed, his mother thinks she has wasted her life, his sister is a foul-mouthed 15 year-old, his son, William, is obsessed with Jeremy Clarkson and Nigel is a gay Buddhist van driver. There are many new people in Adrian Mole’s life including Dev Singh, his co-host on “Offally Good!” and Jo Jo, who is Adrian’s Nigerian wife who has returned to her home country. All of this makes for another... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Conversational style makes it easy to get into
Disadvantages: You've got to like the Adrian Mole series

...I thought I'd "outgrown" Adrian Mole - how wrong I was. I received this book as a Christmas present (thanks, Sam!) and really enjoyed it. The thing I like most about Adrian Mole as a character is that he tries (and fails most of the time) to get things right whilst dealing with the problems life throws at him - a failed marriage, single fatherhood and dysfunctional parents, let alone the boss from hell! Pandora has developed into the machiavellian political monster she always had the potential to be; Adrian still adores her but is constantly plagued by worry and self-doubt. He can get a bit whiney at times, but on the whole I enjoyed this next installment of the life of one of Leicester's favourite(?) sons.... Read review

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