This is an auction for MAD ABOUT THE BOY by Helen Fielding.

"It’s been 15 years since readers first met the charmingly insecure Bridget Jones, and 13 since her last adventure in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2000). Bridget is now 51, and, most readers will be chagrined to learn, a widow. She is also raising the two children she had with the now deceased Mark Darcy and gingerly wading back into the dating pool while working on a screenplay. When she joins Twitter, she obsesses about the number of Twitter followers she has the same way she used to agonize over her weight, which does remains a concern. Bridget begins a Twitter flirtation with a sexy guy named Roxster, who turns out to be only 29. Most of the novel is devoted to the ups and downs of their ensuing relationship. It is fun to revisit Bridget and all her neuroses, but the novel is at its best when Fielding focuses on the challenges Bridget faces as a single parent, including her love/hate relationship with one of her son’s teachers."

• Booklist (US)

“Sharp and humorous. . . . Snappily written, observationally astute. . . . Genuinely moving."

• New York Times Book Review

“Bridget’s back! And as irrepressible as ever. . . . Sweet, clever, and funny.”

• People

“A clever mashup of texts, emails, tweets, and diary entries from Bridget, a bighearted person who brings hearty humour to the ordinary vicissitudes of life. . . . Fielding’s wit is generous and forgiving.”

• Chicago Tribune

“Tender and comic.”

• The New Yorker

“Delightful.”

• Los Angeles Times

“Sweet and satisfying.”

• USA Today

“Very funny.”

• Boston Globe

“Sweet, clever and funny. Yay Bridget!”

• People (five stars)

Large format (trade) paperback 2013.

386 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.