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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Audiobook
0 of 1 copy available
Wait time: About 2 weeks
0 of 1 copy available
Wait time: About 2 weeks

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first publication of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, Penguin Audiobooks are re-releasing the audiobook edition of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 in downloadable audio. This classic of comic fiction is hilariously read by Stephen Mangan, who played Adrian Mole in the The Cappuccino Years and also starred in The Green Wing as the hapless Guy Secretan.
Friday January 2nd
I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home.
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Using Adrian's diary as her vehicle, Sue Townsend takes us on an illuminating and entertaining two-pronged journey into the mind of an adolescent boy and into the glamourless world of down-at-heel Britain. Nicholas Barnes' sparing performance as the young diarist is convincing and deferential to the author's acerbic wit and satirical purpose. While he is careful to convey Adrian's clashes of emotion, querulousness and self-absorption, earnestness and unwitting naiveté, the narrator never overplays the role. His audience is left to enjoy the subtleties of the bathos, humor and irony that pepper the story. Though too risqué to be appropriate for young children, this is a very funny revisitation of a life stage many might wish to strike from memory. B.M.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:740
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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