Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Finished my first book of the new year - the latest Adrian Mole instalment, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years that I got for RM15. I know it's been out for over a year, but things happen. I read The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 when I was actually 13, so it was half a lifetime ago.

I can't be the only one who'd mistaken "prostrate" for "prostate" in the title, since it does involve Adrian having prostate cancer in the book. I thought it had been a typo. Whoops.

Because I had been reading in a hurry (in a span of few hours) I only got some of the hilarious lines along the way.

It was great that some of the long standing niggling questions have been answered, like half-sister Rosie's paternity. I only hope that George is Adrian's actual father or that would suck... or would it?

As it was with the previous book, this one was on a grimmer note (Adrian diagnosed with prostate cancer, out of a job when the bookshop closed and his current wife Daisy leaving him for her boss, etc etc) and ended on a slightly better note - him finally getting together with Pandora (inplied, anyway) after all these years since their teens. You can't leave it hanging like that; so I say there's definitely gonna be another one in the next year or two.