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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

By: Sue Townsend
Narrated by: Nicholas Barnes
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Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped.

©1993 Sue Townsend (P)2012 AudioGO Ltd Diaries & Journals Fiction Genre Fiction Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence Women's Fiction Funny Witty Comedy
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"Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation." ( The Times)
"Enormously funny." ( Sunday Telegraph)
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I have grown up reading the Adrian Mole books and adore them. The narrator performed and read this book so well. It has been a pleasure to revisit these again in audio form.

A Brilliant Listen

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As others have said, this is perhaps not the best of the Mole bunch - early on it is almost too angry/bitter/dark to actually be enjoyable, but it does lighten up and become more humorous later on.

Overall pretty good

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Some hilarious moments and it's nice keeping up with the characters, but the books feel gradually less funny to me as they go along. I don't normally buy books on Audible because they're often too pricey for me, and I wouldn't particularly recommend this one except to big fans of the series. Still enjoyed it and I'll probably hunt out the others for a read someday. :)

Fun, but a bit disappointing

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This is the second Adrian Mole I have listened to and enjoyed.
Nicholas Barnes really captures A. Mole's pomp and petulance.

Moley still has it

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I adored reading the books when I was younger and was eager to listen to later books on my way to work. To be honest I can’t decide if the narrator is so bored he isn’t interested in what he is doing or brilliant in his portrayal of Adrian Mole. The story is okay but not as funny as earlier books however I was compelled to keep listening.

Can’t make up my mind

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