![]() ![]() Fielding is excellent at a mixture of perception and comedy, capturing thoughts everyone has but hasn't actually expressed' Sally Emerson, Daily Mail 'Bridget is probably the most successful comic creation of this decade, the most controversial and talked-about female fictional character since Lolita. I laughed out loud many time while reading The Edge of Reason. 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 Cooper 'Bridget 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. Success has not spoiled her - she has simply gained in confidence and aplomb. A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page' 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. 'Funnier and more accomplished than the original diary, and in fact takes recognition humour into a new dimension. A number-one bestseller by Helen Fielding, it is, alongside Bridget Jones's Diary, a modern classic and one of the funniest books you'll ever read.īridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Press Reviews Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is Bridget at her best: funny, wise, and, as ever, a little bit sloshed. ![]() Surely it will be the perfect place to set her life on course once and for all. And so Bridget decides to embark on a spiritual epiphany to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of Thailand. But things aren't perfect: there's an eight-foot hole in the wall of her flat, she's increasingly worried about a certain boyfriend-stealing beauty, and her friends' mad advice is getting her nowhere - something has to change. She is no longer a smoker (well, not much), the wilderness years are over, and she is at last united with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. ![]() Bridget's second diary ushers in a reformed woman. With an introduction by journalist Hadley Freeman 9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.). Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Synopsis ![]()
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