25 Facts About Adrian Mole

Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of epistolary novels by English author Sue Townsend.

For example, Mr and Mrs Adrian Mole's divorce reflects rising divorce rates in the 1980s, and living together unmarried was becoming a norm.

Adrian Mole's mother becomes a staunch feminist and briefly joins the Greenham Common campaigners.

In dealing with political events, a constant plot device is that Adrian Mole makes confident predictions and statements that are known to be wrong by the reader, ranging from belief in the Hitler Diaries to an Iraqi victory in the Gulf War and the existence of their weapons of mass destruction.

Adrian Albert Mole is born 2 April, with the first book establishing the year as 1967.

Adrian Mole grows up with his parents in the city of Leicester; before moving to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in England's East Midlands.

Adrian Mole is an only child until the age of 15, when his half-brother Brett and half-sister Rosie are born.

Adrian Mole is not gifted academically but does tolerably well at school, though he does sometimes suffer the ire of headmaster "Pop-Eye" Scruton.

Ironically Adrian Mole actually is a good writer, as the quality of his diaries attests, but he feels he must adopt a "high" or avant-garde literary style to be taken seriously.

Adrian Mole befriends an old pensioner called Archie Tait whilst he is living back at home with his mother.

Adrian Mole finds out that Glenn Bott is his son and cannot pay Sharon all the money, so he cares for Glenn full-time.

Adrian Mole is terrorized by swans, buys a talking fridge, and enjoys his newfound freedom as his children are "off his hands".

Adrian Mole gets caught up in a relationship with Marigold Flowers, a strange woman with a passion for dollhouses.

Adrian Mole is attracted to her at first, but he likes her less each day and she costs him a lot of money.

The couple settle down and have a daughter Gracie, but Adrian Mole's problems are far from over.

Adrian Mole suffers the double tragedy of losing his new wife to the local squire while discovering that he himself has cancer.

The final book ends with Adrian Mole finding out he will be a grandfather and Pandora arriving outside the house.

Adrian's parents Pauline and George Mole are working-class characters with limited social mobility who drink and smoke heavily.

George fathers a second son, Brett, by a lover, Doreen Slater, whom Adrian Mole privately refers to as "Stick Insect".

Adrian Mole relies on him on occasion; when she becomes pregnant as a teenager, Adrian supports her decision to have an abortion.

Adrian Mole tries to talk his mother and Rosie out of informing George or appearing on the show, but they do so; the test proves that Mr Lucas is Rosie's father.

However, in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, it is stated that his name was Arnold, and as Arthur in Weapons of Mass Destruction.

However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Adrian Mole book entitled The Prostrate Years, which was released in 2009.

Adrian Mole's editor had seen what she describes as 'a few wonderful pages'.

Adrian Mole: The Lost Years includes The True Confessions and The Wilderness Years, and the bonus story "Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians".