Adrian Mole collection 8 Books set. (Sue Townsend Adrian Mole series collection set.) (The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾, the Growing pains of Adrian Mole, True confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Adrian Mole: the wilderness year, Adrian Mole the cappuccino year, the lost diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001, Adrian Mole and the weapons of Mass Destruction and Adrian Mole the Prostrate year)

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Professor Frank Green is the man occupying the flat underneath Adrian's. He is a professor of science and works at Leicester University. He is a kind, middle-aged man who is more sympathetic than Mia, Adrian's upstairs neighbour. He helps Adrian carry his talking refrigerator from the car park to his flat. He and Mia get agitated at the loud volume at which Adrian plays his music. Summer 2007 Oration – Sue Townsend". Loughborough University. 20 July 2007 . Retrieved 1 February 2008. 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. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other forms. She enjoyed great success in the 1980s, with her Adrian Mole books selling more copies than any other work of fiction in Britain during the decade. This series, which eventually encompassed nine books, takes the form of the character's diaries. The earliest books recount the life of a teenage boy during the Thatcher years, but the sequence eventually depicts Adrian Mole in middle age.

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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. Sue Townsend "Sue Townsend: how the welfare state left me and my kids scouring the streets for pennies", The Observer, 13 April 2014. Extract from Mr Bevan's Dream, first published in The Observer in 1989. These first two books were adapted into a television series, broadcast in 1985 and 1987, and a video game.Sue was born in the United Kingdom is Leicester on April 2, 1946. She is a novelist perhaps most well known for writing the fictional Adrian Mole book series. The series sold more copies than any other during that decade in Britain. She has written books that are comedic and dramatic. In addition to the series, she has written several stand alone novels. She also was recognized for her plays, with her first signature character making its debut on a radio drama. After experiencing kidney failure, she underwent dialysis and in September 2009 she received a kidney from her elder son Sean, after a two-year wait for a donor. [1] She also had degenerative arthritis, which left her reliant on a wheelchair. [1] By this time, she was dictating to Sean, who worked as her typist. [28] [29] Surgery was carried out at Leicester General Hospital and Townsend spoke to the BBC about her illness on an appeal for National Kidney Day. [30] Death [ edit ]

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Pete Sugden is Pauline's brother. Adrian overhears a telephone conversation between the two in The Lost Diaries, where it is revealed that Pete's wife Yvonne stole a brooch that was left to Pauline in a will, and that their mother never particularly liked Yvonne. However, after slagging Yvonne off, Pete reveals that she had died the day previously. Pauline then asks for her brother to send her the brooch through the post and Pete hung up. Pete and Yvonne Sugden had never been mentioned previously, and were never mentioned again.

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Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults (Phoenix Arts Theatre, 1982) now known as the Sue Townsend Theatre Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared (as "Nigel") as part of a comic diary featured in a short-lived arts magazine (called simply magazine) published in Leicester in 1980, and shortly afterward in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence. The first two books appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy. They also captured something of the zeitgeist of the UK during the Thatcher period. Richly comic ... stuffed full of humour, tragedy, vanity, pathos and, very occasionally, wisdom' Guardian

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Amanda is Susan Mole's wife and Adrian's aunt by marriage. It is stated that she and Susan married shortly before the beginning of Cappuccino Years and that Adrian attended their wedding reception in the officers' social club at Holloway Prison. Three cheers for Mole's chaotic, non-achieving, dysfunctional family. We need him' Evening StandardMartin Muffet is Pauline Mole's second husband, twenty-three years her junior. He was Adrian's stepfather until his decision to leave Pauline for Adrian's own girlfriend, Bianca Dartington. Sky Arts: The Book Show". Skyarts.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008 . Retrieved 1 February 2008.

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Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times 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.Women of The Year Lunch and Assembly". womenoftheyear.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007 . Retrieved 1 February 2008.