Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

By: Helen Fielding

Narrated by: Samantha Bond

Brought to you by Penguin.

Bridget Jones is mad about the boy – the gloriously funny and heartwarming million-copy bestseller, now a major film starring Renée Zellweger.

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

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’.

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

‘Groundbreaking, iconic…a trailblazer’
CAITLIN MORAN

‘Sharp and humorous…genuinely moving’
NEW YORK TIMES

©2013 Helen Fielding (P)2013 Penguin Audio

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

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.