- Pandora Braithwaite
Pandora Louise Elizabeth Braithwaite (January, 1967) is the love interest of
Adrian Mole in the "Adrian Mole" series of books bySue Townsend .In the books, Pandora is the love of Adrian's life. Pandora is beautiful (Adrian especially loves her 'treacle-coloured' hair) and intelligent, and in the first books, she and Adrian Mole are happy together. In the later books, Pandora resists Adrian's advances in favour of physically and intellectually powerful men, although Adrian continues to remain attached to her.
Life
Pandora's parents were called Ivan and Tania. She came to
Leicester at the age of 13. She sat with Adrian duringgeography classes, and soon became the most popular girl in their class. She started dating Nigel, but they soon broke-up. A few weeks later, on Wednesday (June 10 ,1981 ), Adrian and Pandora started dating together. They had many short break-ups, till they finally ended their relationship in "True Confessions".She attended college in
Oxford , studying Mandarin, Russian and Serbo-Croat. She graduated and married her first husband, who is openly gay. They cemented their love at London's famous AstoriaG-A-Y nightclub after he drove for hours to pick her up. Her aversion to germs meant that she was unable to take a train. She had several liaisons and drifts apart from Adrian. Eventually she cohabited with Jack Cavendish, an old professor of linguistics. After many years they split up, with Jack spreading many of her secrets.Later, she entered politics in the
New Labour era underTony Blair and became a Labour MP forAshby-de-la-Zouch ,Leicestershire . She called herself "Pan National" and "The Shiniest Star on Blair's Sky", and media also started calling her like that.See also
* Adrian Mole's friends.
References
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/secretdiaryofadr_66602440.shtml The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4] ,
BBC .
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A820955 Adrian Mole — Fictional Diarist] , BBC, 2002.
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