Adrian Mole grandfather. 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, he is simply called Grandad Mole. Adrian's maternal grandparents, the Sugdens, have never had their names revealed, although Pauline has two brothers, Dennis and Pete. Dennis married a woman called Marcia, and they had a son called Maurice, and Pete married a woman called Yvonne, who had died.. Grandma Sugden had died twenty years previously, as of "The Lost Diaries". Adrian's aunt, Susan Mole, appears in most – if not all – of the
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