Helen Fielding is the author of Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and was part of the screenwriting team on the movies of the same name. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is her fifth novel. She has two children and lives in London and sometimes Los Angeles.

"Sharp and humorous. . . . Snappily written, observationally astute. . . . Genuinely moving." --The New York Times Book Review

"Bridget's back! And as irrepressible as ever. . . . Sweet, clever, and funny." --People

"A clever mashup of texts, emails, tweets, and diary entries from Bridget, a bighearted person who brings hearty humor to the ordinary vicissitudes of life. . . . Fielding's wit is generous and forgiving." --Chicago Tribune

"Fielding's comic gifts . . . are once again on shimmering exhibit." --Elle

"Tender and comic." --The New Yorker

"Feels like visiting with your funniest friend." --Entertainment Weekly

"Delightful. . . . Bridget Jones was a character made for the Internet, from her confessional tone to her casual creation of memes." --Los Angeles Times

"Sweet and satisfying. . . . Bridget still has her posse of funny friends and her shelf of self-help books." --USA Today

"Helen has always had a sharp eye for the obsessions and neuroses of our times, a talent much in evidence here--her [Bridget's] liability rests very much on her believability." --Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue

"Very funny." --The Boston Globe

"Sweet, clever and funny. Yay Bridget!" --People (five stars)

"Fielding has somehow pulled off the neat trick of holding to her initial premise--single woman looks for romance--while allowing her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before. . . . Mad About the Boy, is not only sharp and humorous . . . but also snappily written, obser­vationally astute and at times genuinely moving. . . . Bridget-the-parent is like a character in a Russian novel, lurching constantly from ecstasy to despair, sometimes in the course of a single paragraph. . . . Its big heart, incisive observations, nice sentences, vivid characters and zippy pace make it a book you could happily spend the night with. It is possible I cried a little at the end, but then, as Bridget might say: am sucker for happy endings." --Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review

"As Bridget might say, it's 'v. v. good.' . . . [She's] still hilarious and hopeful, even while making crazy mistakes and pointed asides and romancing a sexy younger man." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"I read the book. I loved it. I loved her. She's smart, she's funny and she makes us all feel like we're good just the way we are." --Jenna Bush Hager, Today

"Just as Helen Fielding did with the dating world of London in the 1990s, she now casts her laser-sharp eyes on midlife and parenthood. . . . Fielding's wit is generous and forgiving. . . . A clever mashup of texts, emails, tweets, and diary entries from Bridget, a big­hearted person who brings hearty humor to the ordi­nary vicissitudes of life." --Chicago Tribune

"Inimitable. . . . If you don't shed a few tears in the course of this book, you must have a heart of ice." --The Guardian (London)

"Fielding's comic gifts--and, just as important, her almost anthropological ability to nose out all that is trendy and potentially crazy-making about contem­porary culture, from Twitter ('OMG, Lady Gaga has 33 million followers! Complete meltdown. Why am I even bothering? Twitter is giant popularity contest which I am doomed to be the worst at') to online dating--are once again on shimmering exhibit. And Bridget is still recognizably her ditzy but ultimately unfazable self. . . . [Has] the sort of narrative propul­sion that is rare in autobiographically conceived fic­tion, not to mention an unsolipsistic world view (for all of Bridget's fussing over herself) that invites broad reader identification." --Daphne Merkin, Elle

"She's back! Our favorite hapless heroine returns after a decade-plus hiatus, juggling two kids, potential boyfriends, smug marrieds, rogue gadgets, and her nascent Twitter feed." --Vogue

"With Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding created a new female archetype. Now she's brought Bridget back to conquer the twenty-first century. . . . The diary form itself pays homage to Austen, lifting Fielding's work above many pale imitations. Austen's heroines aren't writers, but Fielding's is. . . . Aus­ten's plots are marriage plots, and ultimately so are Bridget's. But Fielding's novels (like Austen's, and like Sex and the City and Girls) also revolve around friendship--something at which Bridget excels. Nor is the character's staying power an accident. Field­ing . . . is still very much a writer." --Radhika Jones, Time

"A character like Bridget Jones is so beloved that she becomes something of a virtual best friend. . . . [The] third Bridget romp is every bit as engaging, hilarious and sometimes downright naughty as the first two: perfect light reading after a long day of holiday shop­ping, online dating or herding co-workers." --Dallas Morning News

"Fielding manages to both move and delight the reader time after time. . . . Hilarious." --New York Journal of Books