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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:30th Jan '25

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 30th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy cover

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

Bridget's back and it's v.v. good... I laughed, I cried and most of all I loved * Daily Mail *
A fun, fast-paced, entertaining ride...I devoured the book in two days * Cosmopolitan *
Laugh out loud funny * Financial Times *
Sharp and humorous...snappily written, observationally astute...genuinely moving * New York Times Book Review *
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 * Closer *

  • Short-listed for Specsavers National Book Award 2013 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2014 (UK)

ISBN: 9781529952919

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 500g

400 pages