A Review By Zoe Boulton

Adrian is back! It’s the final days of Blair’s Premiership and Adrian is living in one half of his parent’s converted pigsty in rural Leicestershire with his wife Daisy and their 5 year old daughter Gracie. At the end of the last book Adrian’s life seemed to finally be idyllic but, as usual with Adrian, this did not last long. His wife is unhappy, stifled and over-eating, they are powerless to discipline their stubborn-minded daughter, his mother is writing her own misery memoir and his nightly bathroom visits are becoming ever more frequent.

The writing is sharp and witty, although there is a poignancy to this novel and the laughs don’t seem to be as fast-flowing as they did previously. Adrian has matured a great deal too, and is not quite as self-centred as in his earlier diaries. There is a rumour that the next book will be the last instalment of Adrian’s diaries which is something I greatly hope to not be true, more Adrian please!