Welcome to Bridget’s first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.

A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships?
An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family?
Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question (Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy?), she turns for support to four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of Chardonnay.

Helen Fielding’s first Bridget Jones novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen four books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film series Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Mad About the Boy.

‘Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching’ – Jilly Cooper, The Daily Telegraph

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

_{Bridget Jones’s Diary was featured in ‘The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years’ published by The Sunday Times on 18/08/2024}

Bridget Jones, the original singleton, is back and her life is as chaotic as ever in The Edge of Reason, the number one bestseller from Helen Fielding.

The Wilderness Years are over! But for how long?

Bridget’s second diary takes us through a year that begins with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy (who never does the washing up) and lurches onwards through a sea of self-help books and lunatic advice from her mad friends.

Struggling with the challenges of a boyfriend-stealing beauty, an eight-foot hole in the wall and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget decides it’s time for a spiritual epiphany. And so she departs Notting Hill for the sparkling shores of Thailand . . .

Bridget is back. V.g.

Helen Fielding’s first novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen four books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film series Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Baby, and Mad About the Boy.

‘Could The Edge of Reason really be as funny as its predecessor? The answer is yes . . . Bridget, the original Singleton, is on ripping form.’- Daily Express

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

_{Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was featured in ‘The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years’ published by The Sunday Times on 18/08/2024}

This special bumper anniversary compendium also features an introduction and commentary from Helen Fielding, and over 100 pages of rare material taken from 25 years of her writing, including:

* Extracts from Helen’s early journalism
* A selection of the original Independent newspaper columns.
* Bridget Jones interviews Colin Firth
* Later columns on #MeToo, Brexit, and Bridget’s lockdown life
* A selection of hilarious restaurant reviews featuring the real life inspirations for Jude, Shazzer, Auntie Una, Mum and Daniel Cleaver

9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.).

Bridget’s second diary ushers in a reformed woman. 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. 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. And so Bridget decides to embark on a spiritual epiphany to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of Thailand. Surely it will be the perfect place to set her life on course once and for all . . .

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is Bridget at her best: funny, wise, and, as ever, a little bit sloshed. 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.

‘Gloriously funny’ DAILY EXPRESS

8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time.

Before motherhood, before marriage, BRIDGET JONES, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour.

Her joyful pregnancy is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question – who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit?

‘Bridget is a creation of comic genius’ NICK HORNBY

‘How can a reader not love this woman?’ NEW YORK TIMES

Welcome to Bridget’s first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.

A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships?
An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family?
Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question (Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy?), she turns for support to four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay.

Helen Fielding’s first Bridget Jones novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen four books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film series Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Mad About the Boy.

_{Bridget Jones’s Diary was featured in ‘The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years’ published by The Sunday Times on 18/08/2024}

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

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

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’.

‘Groundbreaking, iconic?a trailblazer’
CAITLIN MORAN

‘Sharp and humorous?genuinely moving’
NEW YORK TIMES

READERS LOVE MAD ABOUT THE BOY
‘Moving, hilarious?daring and fabulous’
‘Bridget is just as loveable as ever’
‘Helen Fielding is a genius’
‘Fantastic? I couldn’t put it down!’
‘Like catching up with an old friend?
I loved this book’
‘Helen Fielding is an amazing writer’
‘Brilliant. Funny. Totally addictive’