Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
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| Author | Sue Townsend |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Adrian Mole |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
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5 November 2009 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 416 |
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| Preceded by | The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 |
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years is the last installment in the popular Adrian Mole series. It is set between 2007 and 2008. It was released on 5 November 2009.
Adrian Mole is 39-and-a-quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the flame. To cap it all off, Adrian is leaving his bed numerous times a night to go to the lavatory and has other alarming symptoms, leading him to suspect prostate trouble.
Meanwhile, his mother thinks that an appearance on The Jeremy Kyle Show might solve the mystery of her daughter's paternity. Adrian also discovers that the assumption that he is George and Pauline's offspring might be a fallacy. To add to his misery, he is already impaired further with his prostate trouble. As Adrian's worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite ignites memories of a shared passion and makes him wonder—is she the only one who can save him now?
Daisy is now married to Adrian and is living with him in The Piggeries, much to her constant misery. She and Adrian grow further apart during the course of the book and she leaves him as a result, following an affair with a wealthy landowner Hugh Fairfax-Lycett.
Gracie is Adrian and Daisy's young daughter. She enjoys dressing up in her favourite costumes in place of her school uniform and has become slightly obsessed with High School Musical. Throughout the course of the book, Adrian frequently feels that he has been emotionally neglectful of her, resulting in her lack of respect towards him. She is partially named after her paternal grandmother (her full name is Gracie Pauline Mole).
Pauline, Adrian's mother is more central to this book's storyline and is a comforting female presence in the life of Daisy, Adrian's wife. During the course of the book, she is working on a highly exaggerated semi-autobiographical novel entitled A Girl Called "Shit" (a pun on the real-life novel A Child Called "It"). The autobiography starts sad as Adrian reads it, but Pauline soon livens it up.
Adrian's father. George is a full-time wheelchair user and still continuing his unhealthy lifestyle, despite having had a stroke. During the book, he discovers that he is not Rosie Mole's biological father whilst appearing with Pauline and Alan Lucas (Rosie's biological father) on The Jeremy Kyle Show. He is very fond of Gracie, Adrian's daughter.
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