Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
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3.9 • 431 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
NOW A PEACOCK ORIGINAL FILM • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary comes a hilarious and heartwarming novel. Join Bridget on her journey through romantic mishaps, technological misadventures, and the joys and trials of modern motherhood as she embarks on a new chapter and learns to embrace herself.
“[Bridget's] smart, she’s funny and she makes us all feel like we’re good just the way we are.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Today
“Feels like visiting with your funniest friend.” —Entertainment Weekly
"Sharp and humorous. . . . Snappily written, observationally astute. . . . Genuinely moving.” —The New York Times Book Review
Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridget’s life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single parenting, online dating and wildly morphing dress sizes, she is the same irrepressible and endearing soul we all remember—though her talent for embarrassing herself in hilarious ways has become dangerously amplified now that she has 752 Twitter followers. Bridget navigates head lice epidemics, school-picnic humiliations, cross-generational sex, and learns why one should never, ever text while drunk.
Studded with witty observations about the perils and absurdities of our times, Mad About the Boy is both outrageously comic and genuinely moving. As we watch her dealing with heartbreaking loss and rediscovering love and joy, Bridget invites us to fall for her all over again.
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
Loved it!
Mad About The Boy, had me laughing and crying throughout the book! Definitely a great read!
So V. Disappointing
Thank God they never made a movie of this one. Re-reading the whole Bridget Jones series, but forgot how truly disappointing this volume is. Very slow, tedious, utterly unbelievable and a struggle to stay interested in the story.
Not quite the same
It was with high enthusiasm that I bought the book as I had enjoyed the previous ones and the title was very enticing. But I must admit I had a hard time to get into it. I felt bored at times with the whole Roxter story. But I desperately wanted to know how it would end so I kept reading and in the last 200 pages read it fast. By the way the Part Four is written Part One in the pages so needs to be corrected. I knew I was long gone from Part One ! 😳😄.
Still this is our Bridget and I still love her !