Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

by Sue Townsend Narrated by Kris Marshall

Overview

Sunday 1st July

NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you are a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family you are exempt.

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well.

The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent . . .

This laugh-out-loud final chapter in Adrian's story will have you hooked from the first page as you discover what he gets up to next.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2010 - AudioFile

Mark Hadfield sounds exactly as fans would expect Adrian Mole to sound —always admirable, somewhat befuddled, often amused, and frequently amazed. Adrian’s still writing letters to Gordon Brown and Trevor Nunn, his second wife hates living in the Piggery, and he’s still in love with Pandora Braithwaite, a junior minister in the Foreign Office. In this episode we follow Adrian through his diagnosis ("No, it won't be my prostate. I'm only thirty-nine-and-a-half!") and treatment for prostate cancer, from radiation through chemo. Hadfield keeps Adrian real, stunned by the dismal truth, yet never self-pitying. The combination of Hadfield’s understated reading and Townsend’s unsentimental story offers a listening experience that deals head-on with a life-shattering event and finds resilience and humor in the human condition. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940192299043
Publisher:	W. F. Howes Ltd
Publication date:	07/18/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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