Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
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Sue Townsend


ADRIAN MOLE: THE PROSTRATE YEARS

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First published in 2009

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Cover illustration by Alice Tait

ISBN: 978-0-141-93178-4

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

FICTION

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret
Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend
Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999–2001
Rebuilding Coventry
The Queen and I
Ghost Children
Number Ten
Queen Camilla

PLAYS

Bazaar and Rummage
Womberang
Groping for Words
The Great Celestial Cow
Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes
The Queen and I

NON-FICTION

Mr Bevan’s Dream
The Published Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55¾)

Contents

2007

2008

Acknowledgements

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This book is dedicated to Sean, with
love and thanks. And also to Professor
Mike Nicholson and the Renal team
at the Leicester General Hospital.

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Acknowledgements

Without the help of Bailey, Sean, Colin and Louise, I could not have written this book.