Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Once again we join Adrian Mole except this time he is not a spotty self conscious teenager or a reckless young adult he is now 31 years old, has a mischevious son called William, works at a swanky celebrity restauraunt (where the kitchen conditions are less than satisfactory), is still longing for the BBC to make his TV Series "The White Van" a hilarious "serial killer comedy" starring Harry Enfiled and Pauline Quirke. He also has a short spell as a TV chef but, as we have come to expect, his popularity is short-lived when the jovial family favourite Dev Singh steals his thunder. He is still infatuated by Labour MP Pandora Braithwaite who is picking up the peices after being involved in a whelk scandal and still immensely jealous of former bully Barry Kent who has become a popular poet/author. Possibly my favourite Mole book after Townsend's hilarious "The Secret Diary of..." this book is just as funny, involving and enjoyable as the first with a little more edge.