Wildcard Wednesday Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding

 

Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy, written by Helen Fielding,


This book was first published in 2013, 14 years after the book Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason back in 1999.


We now see Bridget, having married Mark Darcy, now widowed in her fifties and left to bring up their 2 children Billy and Mabel 6 and 4. This book sees Bridget coping/dealing with single parenthood, getting back into the dating game, through dating sites, and trying to write a screen play.


Mark however, hasn’t left Bridget destitute, she has a nice house, a nanny Chloe, a lifestyle where it seems, it doesn’t matter if she works or not and Billy and Mabel go to a private school. There are some funny moments but some of it seems a bit unbelievable, not real. Any problems with finding a baby sitter are miraculously solved even though one time it was Daniel Cleaver who by the end of the book ended up in a clinic, having mistaken Washing up liquid for an alcoholic drink. If he was that out of it on his bender to do that he would’ve passed out along while before his mistake, surely.


One of my favourite parts is when Bridget takes Mabel to the doctors with a bad finger, whilst at the doctors Mabel finds some sexual health leaflets and using the technique she has leant at school she spells out the word Gonorrhoea and then announces it in full. Bridget quickly put the leaflets in her bag, but forgets about them until she is in the company of Mr Wallaker, (a teacher at Mabel’s school) who notices them and thinks it is strange when Bridget announces the leaflets are in actual fact Mabel’s. We all know what happened but Mr Wallaker has the right to be confused.


Despite this, the book is a bit depressing. I can see where Helen the author was going with this but I don’t think she quite got there. Yes, we would like to think that if anything bad happened to us or our family that the ones left behind would be well looked after, but I feel this book is a stretch to believe that problems would get solved so quickly, then again you can make anything happen when writing fiction.


We see her struggle with newly dating and wondering if she is being unfaithful to Mark, or if she is actually ready to date again. This part is done well and realistic to the situation, but again it has a depressing edge to it. The book does have a happy ending but how it gets there is questionable.


I can see why Bridget Jones’s baby was made into a film instead of this one. The baby one has much more of an upbeat storyline and more believable


You could say this one in chronological order comes after Bridget jones’s baby so this book could be made into a film but if they do I hope that they achieve what the author failed to do and make it more realistic and less depressing. Although widowhood is naturally a depressing subject, and the situations along the way do happen to some degree, it does however, make me wonder why the storyline in this book was written this way in the first place.


Thank you for reading


Sandra

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