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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 gloriously funny and heartwarming million-copy 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


READERS LOVE MAD ABOUT THE BOY

‘Moving, hilarious…daring and fabulous’

‘Bridget is just as loveable as ever’

‘Helen Fielding is a genius’

‘Fantastic… I couldn’t put it down!’

‘Like catching up with an old friend…
I loved this book’

‘Helen Fielding is an amazing writer’

‘Brilliant. Funny. Totally addictive’

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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