Bridget
Jones:
Mad
About the Boy
Kristine
Huntley
| Booklist
- October 2013
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, rather than
on the somewhat unrealistic May-December romance.
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