Daniel Coonan

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now father to the grammatically challenged Glenn and William. His current worries include: indestructible head-lice; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; a small earthquake in Leicester; and, perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium. Book 7 of the series.

World War II is over, a new decade is beginning, but for an East End teenage brother and sister, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium to learn the way of a patient, they discover that a cure is tantalisingly just out of reach, and only by inciting wholesale rebellion can freedom be snatched.