Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy

A new Bridget Jones novel by Helen Fielding

What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th?

Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?

Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?

Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant?

Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood?

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 modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'.

The long-awaited return of a much-loved character, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and bloody hilarious.

Praise for Other Titles by this Author


Bridget Jones's Diary: 'A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time...reads like Anita Loos out of Jane Austen, and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar.' - The Times


Bridget Jones's Diary: 'I cannot recommend a book more joyfully... Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching.' - Daily Telegraph


Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: 'A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page.' - Sunday Times

Set in contemporary London, the new novel brings us Bridget in a new phase of life.

About the Author

Helen Fielding studied English at St Anne’s College, Oxford and worked at the BBC as writer, researcher and producer. She then began writing for the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Independent, which first published the anonymous column that became the novel Bridget Jones's Diary. Along with its sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, it has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been adapted into two extremely successful films.