Monday June 13th 1988

I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I 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 has grown up.
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 hoped it would be. Still, intellectual poets can't always have things their own way...

Included here are two less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham.

I remember being so excited that seven years after the first Adrian Mole diary was released there was a new installment. I also remember being incredibly disappointed when I read it. The Aidey part was fine, but it's such a slim volume and there are two other sections to the book. Doing a Maggie Thatcher diary was a cool idea, but not at the expense of Moley. I'm hoping time will allow me to appreciate this more, and will turn out to be better than I remember it being.