Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years is the last installment in the Adrian Mole series of novels by Sue Townsend. It is set between 2007 and 2008. It was released on 5 November 2009. It was the last book in the series published before Townsend's death in 2014. Adrian Mole is 39-and-a-quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel (as opposed to "Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians" and the Guardian serial). It is set in 2002/3 and Adrian is 33¾ years of age. The life of the protagonist is covered for one year, with a short epilogue that jumps to a time one year later (to 2004). The title of the book refers to the weapons of mass destruction that were used as justification for the Iraq War