Sue Townsend 
The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 

 »An achingly funny anti-hero » Daily Mail
 »My comfort read. The best diaries ever written – with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me » ADAM KAY
In the SIXTH book in Sue Townsend »s hilarious and iconic series, Adrian, Leicester »s most unlikely ex-con, faces the nit-infested reality of being a single parent . . .
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Monday January 3, 2000
So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I »m a single parent, I live with my mother . . . I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head . . . I can »t go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan . . .
The  »same age as Jesus when he died », Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world.
With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become Labour »s first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success elusive, Adrian tries to make ends meet and find a purpose.
But little does he realise that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror . . .
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 »One of the great comic creations of our time. Almost every page of his diaries bring a smile to the face » Scotsman
 »The funniest person in the world » Caitlin Moran