Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
The laugh-out-loud No.1 Sunday Times bestseller, now a major film starring Renée Zellweger
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3.9 • 142 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
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’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Fielding's novel, beloved Bridget Jones is now 51 years old and a widow, raising her two young children alone after the death of husband Mark Darcy. With her signature diary entries and comical obsession with minutiae, Bridget forges ahead into unfamiliar worlds as she uses Twitter, tries to write a screenplay, and dates a sexy "toy boy" 20 years her junior. Narrator Bond is perfect as Bridget, conveying her humorously self-deprecating insecurity, her joyous highs and depressed lows, and all her inevitable comic mishaps and social awkwardness. She also slips easily into a variety of spot-on character voices, including sophisticated Talitha, supercilious Mr. Wallaker (a schoolteacher who turns out to be more than meets the eye), sexy Roxter (the aforementioned toy boy), and Mabel, Bridget's young daughter. Bond's brilliant narration will have listeners cheering Bridget on, and makes this audiobook a must-listen. A Knopf hardcover.
Customer Reviews
If you loved the last two you'll love this one too!
I've read all three of the BJ books and loved them all. Humorous, escapism at its best...
Wonderful
I laughed out loud, literally cried in sympathy, and felt so warm and happy at the end for a fictional character who honestly feels now like a good friend. Very sad to reach the end of the book.
Absolutely loved it!
Don't bother
So disappointing. Don't bother.