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 show it to the world." Two overlapping compilations exist. The first two books are repackaged in one volume, and "" includes "The True Confessions" and "The Wilderness Years", as well as a bonus not available separately, "Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians". "Adrian Mole From Minor to Major" (i.e. from being a child to the years of the John Major government) is a compilation of the first three books and "Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians". The table below details the title of each novel and the time period covered by Mole's entries: Adrian Mole Adrian Albert Mole is the