BRIDGET JONES - MAD ABOUT THE BOY
BY HELEN FIELDING
386 pages
With the hyped excitement surrounding the new ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ film, the Den couldn’t resist returning to Helen Fielding’s novel of the same name, bringing a delicious dose of flirty romance and fun to book club.
Written in 2013, readers will be delighted to reconnect with Bridget, who whilst all grown up (at 51) with a screen-writing career has been managing to juggle her hectic lifestyle as a single working mum of two young children. It has now been five years since widowed (spoiler alert: Mark Darcy has tragically died), and Bridget is persuaded by her good friends Tom, Jude and Talitha to get back into the dating game.
As a first step, Bridget who recognises herself as a ‘social media virgin’ realises she needs to improve her profile and launches herself on Twitter. She is quick to share her stories and her followers (and lack of!) becomes a new obsession in her diary along with other successes and failures such as weight, food and drink excesses.
"179lbs (huh), pounds lost 0, Twitter followers 0, protein chocolate bars 28."
Despite her ineptitude and hilarious tweets and learnings - ‘do not tweet about date during date’, Bridget manages to catch the attention of Roxster who is young (‘toyboy’ at 29), sexy and funny and loves the equally hilarious Bridget Jones who manages to continue to delight us all as she shares her life experiences as an older dating mum, be it trying to find her reading glasses on a date, being on high nit-alert or removing hot chocolate spills on the perfect working girl outfit.
Readers will enjoy Bridget’s commitment to researching the new dating landscape and the new rules. "DO NOT TEXT WHEN DRUNK."
Fans will also love the arrival of Daniel on the scene for babysitting duties and readers will enjoy Bridget’s resolve to manage dilemmas of dating and finding love and acceptance at fifty-something. A great feel good factor and laugh out loud read, for all!
‘Groundbreaking, iconic a trailblazer’ - according to one critic. Now over to you!