Title of Helen Fielding's next novel in the bestselling series revealed, but identity of boy in question remains mysterious
The title of Helen Fielding's new Bridget Jones novel, to be published on October 10, has been revealed as Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
It's 14 years since the last Bridget Jones novel, Edge of Reason, was published. Fielding has previously said that she "lost her voice with Bridget for a long time … It was very easy to write and be honest, then I got all self-conscious".
The new novel promises to find Bridget older if not wiser, and deeply embroiled in the contemporary virtual landscapes of internet dating, Twitter and other social media. Fielding recently annotated a first edition of Bridget Jones's Diary for a PEN auction: her marginalia remark that the dating game is "so much worse now with email, texting, Twitter, Facebook". Judging from an extract released today, things have only got more embarassing for the hapless heroine:
Wednesday 24 October 2012
11.27 pm Just presss d SEND. Iss fineisn't it?
You see, this is the trouble with the modern world. If it was the days of letter-writing, I would never even have started to find his address, a pen, a piece of paper, an envelope, a stamp, and gone outside at 11.30pm to find a postbox. A text is gone at the brush of a fingertip, like a nuclear bomb or exocet missile.
DATING RULE NO:1
DO NOT TEXT WHEN DRUNK
There has been speculation that the new novel would see Bridget moving on from the perils of drinking and dating to the pitfalls of parenthood – Fielding has had two children since the last book was published – but "when asked which boy Bridget was mad about, Fielding merely raised one eyebrow enigmatically".
via Books: Fiction | guardian.co.uk
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