• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

  • Mad About the Boy
  • By: Helen Fielding
  • Narrated by: Samantha Bond
  • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

By: Helen Fielding
Narrated by: Samantha Bond
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Editorial reviews

Helen Fielding’s third Bridget Jones diary-novel, Mad About the Boy, follows Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, both made into hit films starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. When we meet Bridget once more, she is widowed – left well-provided for by Mark Darcy’s will – and approaching middle age. Narrated by Samantha Bond, this audiobook explores single parenthood, tweeting, texting, sex and relationships the second time around with all the warmth, humour and occasional hilarious awkwardness listeners have come to expect from the modern Everywoman who is Bridget Jones. Download Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy from Audible.

Publisher's summary

When Helen Fielding first wrote Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-something singleton in London in the 1990s, she introduced audiences to one of the most beloved characters in modern literature. The book was published in 40 countries, sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, and spawned a best-selling sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

The two books were turned into major blockbuster films starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth. 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.

©2013 Helen Fielding (P)2013 Penguin Audio

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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

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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.

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