Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

By: Helen Fielding

Narrated by: Samantha Bond

Brought to you by Penguin.

Bridget Jones is mad about the boy – the gloriously funny and heartwarming million-copy bestseller, now a major film starring Renée Zellweger.

What do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s 30th?

Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?

Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day?

Pondering these, and other dilemmas, BRIDGET JONES stumbles through the challenges of single motherhood, online dating, and achieving ‘acceptance and calm’ in what SOME people rudely call ‘middle age’.

‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’
DOLLY ALDERTON

‘Groundbreaking, iconic…a trailblazer’
CAITLIN MORAN

‘Sharp and humorous…genuinely moving’
NEW YORK TIMES

© Helen Fielding 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2013

Critic reviews

Bridget's back and it's v.v. good... I laughed, I cried and most of all I loved

A fun, fast-paced, entertaining ride...I devoured the book in two days

Laugh out loud funny

Sharp and humorous...snappily written, observationally astute...genuinely moving

You'll be left feeling like you've just met up with an old pal you haven't seen for ages – and wish you could have done it sooner

Fielding is entertaining and insightful, her timing immaculate. (Nicola Shulman)

Those of us who loved her the first time will be glad to welcome her back – big pants, fillers and all. (Stephanie Merritt)

The advances of communications technology since the mid-Nineties were made for Bridget's more obsessive side. (Susie Boyt)

Bridget is a bit older, no wiser and still funny. (Katy Guest)

[Bridget’s] appeal is in her ability to pull the happy ending we’d all love from the chaos and self-doubt of everyday life. (Caroline Jowett)

Felt like coming home

Where does Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Easily one of my favorites. Samantha Bond was fantastic and handled the Bridget Jones we all know and love with perfect skill and did her every justice possible.

What did you like best about this story?

I bought this book not only because I'm a Bridget fan, but because I needed to laugh. And I was not disappointed.

Which scene was your favorite?

The farting sports day...was laughing so much I had to pause the book.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed and cried till my stomach hurt. I felt like my old friend was back for a visit and I didn't want her to leave

Slightly Ho-hum

I was quite excited to listen to this story having loved the two Bridget Jones movies, but not having read the books.
I found the story fairly boring with many moments being taken up with boring reading of Twitter comments that made me want to fast forward.
The story is very similar to the first but without the freshness and surprise that the first story gave us. I generally felt that the author was attempting to make some easy money out of a stock type of story.
The reader was ok but not wonderful.