Adrian Mole is 21-years-old, as naive and pretentious as ever, working at the Environment Department. In this book, Adrian has to deal with possibly being the father of his ex-girlfriend's, Sharon Bott's, unborn child, learning how to drive, his mother's affair and his parents' consequential separation (and his mother's consequential marriage), watching the love-of-his-life Pandora go through multiple romantic partners, and the bully from his school days, Barry Kent, fulfill Adrian's own dream and become a famous poet.