“Townsend’s wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “Townsend is [a] comic genius.”—The Village Voice (a Top Shelf selection)   “The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend’s wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.”—The Seattle Times   “Complex, funny and wrenching.”—Publishers Weekly   Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus.
