Adrian Mole discovering that he himself has cancer. His loyal friend and co-worker Bernard Hopkins comes to the rescue, moving in with him and promising to remain until his cancer is in remission. Fortunately Adrian's cancer treatment is successful and Bernard leaves to pursue romance with a local widow, giving Adrian a pig as a farewell present. The final book ends with Adrian finding out he will be a grandfather and Pandora arriving outside the house. The Mole family is dysfunctional. Adrian's parents Pauline and George Mole are working-class characters with limited social mobility who drink and smoke heavily. Both are often
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years 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", 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