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With her hotly anticipated third instalment, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new enticing phase of Bridget's life set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by and the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous email CC, total lack of twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on. An uproariously funny novel of modern life, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a triumphant return of our favourite Everywoman.

The multi-million copy number one bestseller. 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...

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 with biological clock ticking very, very loudly finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated however by a crucial but terribly awkward question - who is the father?

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...

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...

By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend's sister - the lovely and almost-on-the-shelf - Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of them know the truth - it's all an elaborate ruse to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers. And as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, it's hard to remember that their courtship is a sham.

Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball, or that 'Prince Charming' would be waiting there for her!Even though she's the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight.

Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret, and fears she doesn't know him at all.

All the ton agree: there is no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. Fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken and - according to some, particularly Gareth St. Clair - probably best in small doses. But there's something about her - something charming and vexing - that grabs one and won't quite let go. Gareth and Hyacinth cross paths at the annual - and annually discordant - Smythe-Smith musicale. To Hyacinth, Gareth's every word seems a dare, and she offers to help him out with a knotty inheritance problem he's facing.

Mit ihrem Romandebut, Bridget Jones – Schokolade zum Frühstück hat die britische Autorin Helen Fielding die Bestsellerlisten in aller Welt auf Anhieb erobert. Männerlos, aber mit einer Mutter, die es nur gut mit ihr meint und einem besten Freund, der nicht auf Frauen steht, ist Bridget Jones eine Frau von heute. Gemeinsam mit ihren Freundinnen Jude und Shazzer werden alle zentralen Fragen des Daseins gelöst – von der Bindungsunfähigkeit der Männer über Dreißig bis zur Interpretation von Schwangerschaftstests...

Bridget Jones - singlepigen, alle kender og elsker - er tilbage og nu med en bule på maven. Bridget elsker sin singletilværelse og jobbet som tv-producer, men hun ser samtidig for sig, hvordan udløbsdatoen for hendes fertilitet hastigt nærmer sig. Efter en række sjove og pinagtige situationer, som er så typiske for Bridget Jones, finder hun ud af, at hun er gravid.

Que faire lorsque votre toy boy fête ses 30 ans le soir où votre meilleure amie célèbre ses 60 ans ? Est-il moralement condamnable d'aller chez le coiffeur quand vos enfants ont attrapé des poux ?

Bridget Jones' zweites Abenteuer! Unermüdlich kämpft die Heldin des Romans Schokolade zum Frühstück weiter um das große Glück und versucht - bewehrt mit zahllosen Ratgebern wie "Männer sind anders" und "Endlich Wunschgewicht" - ihr Leben zu meistern. Die Chancen steigen, als ihre Mutter endlich einen langen, langen Aufenthalt im Ausland plant.