Bridget
Jones—one of the most beloved characters in modern literature (v.g.)—is back!
In Helen Fielding's wildly funny, hotly anticipated new novel, Bridget faces a
few rather pressing questions:
What do
you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your
boyfriend’s thirtieth?
Is it
better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because you’re so wrinkly?
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?
Is it
normal to be too vain to put on your reading glasses when checking your toy boy
for head lice?
Does the
Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant?
Is it
normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet?
Is
technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood?
If you put
lip plumper on your hands do you get plump hands?
Is
sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as
getting married after two meetings and six months of letter writing in Jane
Austen’s day?
Pondering
these and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges
of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering
her sexuality in—Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!—middle age.
In a
triumphant return after fourteen years of silence, Bridget Jones: Mad About the
Boy is timely, tender, touching, page-turning, witty, wise, outrageous, and
bloody hilarious.
TODAY Book
Club Selection
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