True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

As his secret diary extends into his later teen years, the angsty Brit remains "part Holden Caulfield, part . . . Bertie Wooster" and all Adrian (The New York Times).

Send my diaries back. I would hate them to fall into unfriendly, possibly commercial hands. I am afraid of blackmail; as you know my diaries are full of sex and scandal.

What's happening to Adrian Mole? He's on the cusp of adulthood and burgeoning success as a published poet. But . . . he still lives at home, refuses to par...