Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

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Viking, 2000 - Fiction - 338 pages
Bridget is back! The bestselling, self-disciplined, glacially poised and definitely practically non-smoking Bridget has returned -- with another year's worth of unflinching self-analysis, iron willpower and absolutely no Chardonnay at all (Well, almost.) But has she really found true love? (la la la)

Far from being out of the Singleton woods, the heroine USA Today called "screamingly funny" finds herself lurching through a morass of self-help books and mad advice from best friends Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-nabbing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, and discovering the inadvisability of sending Christmas cards written after a little too much holiday cheef (hic!) -- to say nothing of her uncontrollable mother. And what was that about Inner Poise? Just as Bridget Jones's Diary had readers roaring "Bridget Jones is me", Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason will strike the same devastatingly hilarious, all too familiar chords of recognition in readers everywhere. Bridget does it again.

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Helen Fielding was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, England on February 19, 1958. She studied English at Oxford University. After college, she got a job working for the BBC television studios. She worked for numerous years as a newspaper and TV journalist. Her first book, Cause Celeb, was based on the experiences she had while filming documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief. Her other books include Bridget Jones's Diary, The Edge of Reason, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Mad about the Boy, and Bridget Jones's Baby. She co-wrote the screenplays for the movies Bridget Jones's Diary and the sequel based on The Edge of Reason. She has received several awards including British Book of the Year in 1997 and the Evening Standard Award Best Screenplay in 2002. She works as a full-time novelist and screenwriter.

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