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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

AuthorSue Townsend

NarratorNicholas Barnes

SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 2

Duration5h 36m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, Humour and Comedy

PublisherW.F. Howes

VersionUnabridged

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The troubled teenager continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.

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