The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole place his parents would look and so runs away instead to Grimsby. Reviewing the book for "The Financial Times", Martin Seymour-Smith wrote that it was "quite as classic" as its predecessor. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, a novel by Sue Townsend, is the 2nd book in the Adrian Mole series, following on from "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾". It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage aspiring intellectual. The novel is included in the omnibus "". The book is written in a diary style and set in 1982
Adrian Mole books. Susan is a lesbian and prison warden at Holloway Prison. In earlier books, she is dating a woman called Gloria, but later is married to another woman called Amanda. Production of sequels was interrupted by Townsend's declining health. At the time "Adrian Mole – The Weapons of Mass Destruction" was published in 2004, Townsend stated it would be the last Adrian Mole volume. However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Mole book entitled "The Prostrate Years", which was released in 2009. In