Book info

• Title The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
• Author Sue Townsend
• Year 1984
• Genre Humour

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.

Thoughts

It’s been a while since I re-read the first of these diaries, and the second was just as delightful as the first. I must have read this before, before the start of the book was quite familiar to me, but I’m not sure I’ve ever got to the end, because it certainly took a few twists and turns along the way.

I’ve never really considered a woman’s pregnancy from the point of view of her teenage son, so that was quite fun to peruse. No matter how pretentious Adrian gets, you always end up feeling sorry for him, considering what a mess his family is.

It all comes out alright in the end though, and now I’m super keen to read the next one, I’m pretty confident I’ve never read that one before.

Rating: 4 / 5