The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years

The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years is a 2003 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the third in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.

[1][2][3] The title refers to the Sue Townsend novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, as well as the orange mocha frappuccino drink ordered by three male models in the film Zoolander.

The translator wanted to change Ross to a basketball player instead of rugby; the Russian edition was never published.

[5] After dropping out of college and being kicked out of home by his parents, Ross finds work as an estate agent for Hook, Lyon and Sinker.

[…] There is little to pull the story forward, and the telescoping of Ross's emotional development, such as there is of it, into the final four pages of the book is simply lazy.

Statue of Ross