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Biographical note
Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She has written five novels, Cause Celeb, Bridget Jonesâs Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. She also co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jonesâs Diary, The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jonesâs Baby. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter.Funnier and more accomplished than the original diary, and in fact takes recognition humour into a new dimension . . . A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page
The Sunday Times
If you loved <i>Bridget Jonesâs Diary</i>, youâll love this; there is no diminution of the freshness or fun, or of Fieldingâs underlying intelligence. Success has not spoiled her â she has simply gained in confidence and aplomb . . . 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 <i>captures</i> what - alas - it is like to be female . . . I laughed out loud many time while reading <i>The Edge of Reason</i>. Fielding is excellent at a mixture of perception and comedy, capturing thoughts everyone has but hasn't actually expressed
- Sally Emerson, <i>Daily Mail</i>,
Bridget is probably the most successful comic creation of this decade, the most controversial and talked-about female fictional character since Lolita . . . Bridget terminology has slipped into common parlance . . . She is still on superb form; get someone to buy you this book for Christmas, read it through in one afternoon, hoot out loud at the many v. good bits
- Stephanie Merritt, <i>Observer</i>,
Could <i>Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason</i> really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form in the sequel . . . But she is far more than the patron saint of single women: she is everyman, or rather, everyperson
- Virginia Blackburn, <i>Express</i>,
Fielding has produced a genuinely original fictional voice. Like Anita Loos before her or, perhaps more pertinently, E. M. Delafield in her <i>Diary of a Provincial Lady</i>, she has created a devastatingly funny parody of her life and times . . . Any woman of a certain age can recognize elements of Bridget in herself and will have enormous fun trying to spot them in the book
- Rachel Simhon, <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>,
Bridget Jones is no mere fictional character, she's the Spirit of the Age
- Melanie McDonagh, <i>Evening Standard</i>,
Austen, as before, in Fielding's model, radically but affectionately updated . . . There is, to be honest, a bit of Bridget Jones in a lot of the women and men of a certain generation, and to have those aspects so affectionately rendered, and both ridiculed and subversively celebrated, is a welcome treat
- Robert Potts, <i>TLS</i>,