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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

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

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You'll be left feeling like you've just met up with an old pal you haven't seen for ages – and wish you could have done it sooner

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

Bridget Jones is mad about the boy – the heartwarming summer read and million-copy bestseller, now 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’

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

A fun, fast-paced, entertaining ride...I devoured the book in two days

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Sharp and humorous...snappily written, observationally astute...genuinely moving

You'll be left feeling like you've just met up with an old pal you haven't seen for ages – and wish you could have done it sooner

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