Adrien a treize ans trois quart et plein de problèmes. Entre des parents qui se séparent, un vieux monsieur dont il s'occupe, et son amour naissant pour une fille qui se moque de lui, Adrien a parfois du mal à comprendre les relations humaines ! Si on ajoute à cela le manque d'argent de poche, les boutons d'acné et la recherche d'un avenir professionnel, sa vie est loin d'être de tout repos...
Le jour où ses jumeaux quittent la maison pour entrer à l'université, Eva se met au lit... et elle y reste. Depuis dix-sept ans que le train de la vie l'entraîne dans une course effrénée, elle a envie de hurler : « Stop ! Je veux descendre ! ». Voilà enfin l'occasion.
Son mari, Brian, astronome empêtré dans une liaison extra-conjugale peu satisfaisante, est contrarié. Qui lui préparera son dîner ? Eva ne cherche qu'à attirer l'attention, prétend-il. Mais la rumeur se répand et des admirateurs par centaines, voyant dans le geste d'Eva une forme de protestation, se pressent sous la fenêtre de sa chambre, tandis que son nouvel ami, Alexander, l'homme-à-tout-faire, lui apporte du thé, des toasts, et une sollicitude inattendue. Depuis les confins de son lit, Eva va trouver le sens de la vie, rien de moins !
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend is a modern classic - Adrian is as popular as ever. With a beautiful new package, this novel is perfect for long-time Adrian Mole fans or newcomers to the series. David Walliams contributes a foreword to this beautiful 30th Anniversary edition of The Secret Diary
Fuyant un mari ennuyeux qui voue un amour inconditionnel à ses quatre tortues domestiques, une existence monotone dans le lotissement des Chemins Gris où il ne se passe jamais rien, et surtout la police, Coventry va se découvrir une âme d'aventurière... et de fugitive sans le sou. Tandis que tout le monde la recherche activement, ses tribulations en plein coeur de Londres, aux côtés de personnages tous plus rocambolesques les uns que les autres, vont se révéler bien plus drôles qu'une vie de femme au foyer dans la banlieue anglaise...
Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the third book in his diaries, as 16-year-old Adrian navigates his way into adulthood Monday June 13th I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without the slings and arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about . . . Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham. 'Wonderfully funny and sharp as knives' Sunday Times 'Essential reading for Mole followers' Times Educational Supplement 'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series.Sunday July 18th
My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy. And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence. Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades.'Funny, moving and a poke in the eye for adult morality' Sunday Express 'Written with great verve, and showing an uncanny understanding of the young, Sue Townsend holds the balance between innocence and precocity and the result is both hilarious and salutary' Daily Telegraph 'Life's no fun for an adolescent intellectual. For the reader it's a hoot' New StatesmanSue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55Â), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers. Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband, four children, ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers.
L'impensable s'est produit : le Parti républicain populaire britannique abolit la monarchie. La famille royale est sous le choc : mise à la porte de Buckingham Palace, la Reine, le prince Philip et leurs enfants deviennent les Windsor, une famille comme tout le monde, eux qui n'ont jamais appris à ouvrir une boîte de conserve ou même une porte sans assistance. Récit corrosif et néanmoins très tendre de la vie quotidienne de Ma'am dans une banlieue populaire anglaise.
England became an unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate, with his wife and love of his life, Camilla. But life is about to change. Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen - and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne.
Sue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55Â) , Number Ten , Ghost Children , The Queen and I , Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year , all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers. Sue passed away in 2014 and is survived by her husband, four children, ten grandchildren and millions of avid readers.
When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed.
An achingly funny anti-hero'' Daily Mail''My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me'' ADAM KAYIn the SIXTH book in Sue Townsend''s hilarious and iconic series, Adrian, Leicester''s most unlikely ex-con, faces the nit-infested reality of being a single parent . . . br>__________ Monday January 3, 2000 So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I''m a single parent, I live with my mother . . . I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head . . . I can''t go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan . . . The ''same age as Jesus when he died'', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world. With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become Labour''s first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success elusive, Adrian tries to make ends meet and find a purpose. But little does he realise that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror . . .br>__________ ''One of the great comic creations of our time. Almost every page of his diaries bring a smile to the face'' Scotsman ''The funniest person in the world'' Caitlin Moran>
" j'ai décidé de tenir un journal dans l'espoir que ma vie sera plus intéressante couchée sur le papier.
Ma vie réelle ne présente aucun intérêt. elle est d'un ennui qui défie l'imagination ".
Adrian mole, héros fin de siècle de 23 ans 3/4, vit misérablement à oxford, cherche désespérément un toit, un travail, l'amour de sa vie, un éditeur pour la publication de son premier roman. bref, adrian mole galère, mais le soleil peut se lever aussi à oxford ! .
On connaissait en france adrian mole, 13 ans 3/4 (stock), adrian mole, 15 ans, (seuil) et la reine et moi (seuil).
Avec adrian mole, 23 ans 3/4, sue townsend nous donne à nouveau la preuve de son grand talent d'humoriste.
