Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Paperback Book

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Bridget Jones is back! In The Edge of Reason Bridget discovers what it's like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat . . .

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One of The Sunday Times's top 100 bestselling books of the past 50 yearsBridget Jones, the original singleton, is back and her life is as chaotic as ever in The Edge of Reason, the number one bestseller from Helen Fielding.The Wilderness Years are over! But for how long?Bridget's second diary takes us through a year that begins with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy (who never does the washing up) and lurches onwards through a sea of self-help books and lunatic advice from her mad friends.Struggling with the challenges of a boyfriend-stealing beauty, an eight-foot hole in the wall and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget decides it's time for a spiritual epiphany. And so she departs Notting Hill for the sparkling shores of Thailand . . .Bridget is back. V.g.Helen Fielding's first novel, Bridget Jones's Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen four books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film series Bridget Jones's Diary, The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones's Baby, and Mad About the Boy.'Could The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form.'- Daily ExpressBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was featured in 'The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years' published by The Sunday Times on 18/08/2024

Author Biography

Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She has written five novels, Cause Celeb (1994), Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2000), Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (2003) and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2013). She also co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary, The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones's Baby. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter.

Review

Funnier and more accomplished than the original diary, and in fact takes recognition humour into a new dimension . . . A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page * The Sunday Times *If you loved Bridget Jones's Diary, you'll love this; there is no diminution of the freshness or fun, or of Fielding's underlying intelligence. Success has not spoiled her – she has simply gained in confidence and aplomb . . . Fielding has a seam here she can mine endlessly until she herself gets bored, which I dare say will be long before her readers do * Mail on Sunday *Helen Fielding has created the most enchanting heroine for the millennium -- Jilly CooperBridget Jones's phenomenal success is not just because of her creator's brilliant wit, comic timing and social observation, but because she captures what - alas - it is like to be female . . . I laughed out loud many time while reading The Edge of Reason. Fielding is excellent at a mixture of perception and comedy, capturing thoughts everyone has but hasn't actually expressed -- Sally Emerson, Daily MailBridget is probably the most successful comic creation of this decade, the most controversial and talked-about female fictional character since Lolita . . . Bridget terminology has slipped into common parlance . . . She is still on superb form; get someone to buy you this book for Christmas, read it through in one afternoon, hoot out loud at the many v. good bits -- Stephanie Merritt, ObserverCould Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form in the sequel . . . But she is far more than the patron saint of single women: she is everyman, or rather, everyperson -- Virginia Blackburn, ExpressFielding has produced a genuinely original fictional voice. Like Anita Loos before her or, perhaps more pertinently, E. M. Delafield in her Diary of a Provincial Lady, she has created a devastatingly funny parody of her life and times . . . Any woman of a certain age can recognize elements of Bridget in herself and will have enormous fun trying to spot them in the book -- Rachel Simhon, The Daily TelegraphBridget Jones is no mere fictional character, she's the Spirit of the Age -- Melanie McDonagh, Evening StandardAusten, as before, in Fielding's model, radically but affectionately updated . . . There is, to be honest, a bit of Bridget Jones in a lot of the women and men of a certain generation, and to have those aspects so affectionately rendered, and both ridiculed and subversively celebrated, is a welcome treat -- Robert Potts, TLS

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Bridget Jones is back! In The Edge of Reason Bridget discovers what it's like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat . . .

Details ISBN1035051974 Author Helen Fielding Pages 432 Audience Age 18 Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781035051977 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-11-07 Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-11-07 ISBN-10 1035051974 Series Picador Collection AU Release Date 2025-02-10 NZ Release Date 2025-02-10 We've got this

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