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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Summary

Bridget Jones is mad about the boy – the laugh-out-loud No.1 bestseller, soon to be a major film starring Renée Zellweger.


‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’ DOLLY ALDERTON


What do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s 30th?


Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?

Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day?


Pondering these, and other dilemmas, BRIDGET JONES stumbles through the challenges of single motherhood, online dating, and achieving ‘acceptance and calm’ in what SOME people rudely call ‘middle age’.


‘Groundbreaking, iconic…a trailblazer’

CAITLIN MORAN


‘Sharp and humorous…genuinely moving’

NEW YORK TIMES

Reviews

  • Bridget's back and it's v.v. good... I laughed, I cried and most of all I loved
    Daily Mail

About the author

Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding is the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Bridget Jones’s Baby, and was part of the screenwriting team on the associated films. She has two children and lives in London and Los Angeles.
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