A glorious read & there is a laugh on every page Sunday Times The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Joness Diary Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now in The Edge of Reason she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat & he hasnt done the washing-up not just the whole of this week but ever. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories & mad advice from Jude & Shazzer struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe an 8ft hole in the living-room wall a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers & a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Notting Hill to the palm- & magic-mushroom-kissed shores of.. . Bridget is back. V.g. If you loved Bridget Joness Diary youll love this; there is no diminution of the freshness or fun or of Fieldings underlying intelligence. Success has not spoiled her -- she has simply gained in confidence & aplomb.. . Fielding has a seam here she can mine endlessly until she herself gets bored which I dare say will be long before her readers do Mail on Sunday Funnier & more accomplished than the original diary & in fact takes recognition humour into a new dimension... A glorious read & there is a laugh on every page Sunday Times Helen Fielding has created the most enchanting heroine for the millennium Jilly Cooper