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The original novel, based on the Independent column Fielding wrote from 1995, was published in 1996 and was an international bestseller. Now they've grown up and she's doing it again, this time with all the joys and complications of social media." Over 15 years ago, she gave a voice to a generation of young women with the original Bridget book. But does Bridget Jones still speak for a generation, especially when her multimillionaire creator mostly lives in LA? In the London Evening Standard, Melanie McDonagh argued yes, she does: "Someone to represent the fag end of the babyboomers is no bad thing."įielding's publisher at Jonathan Cape, Dan Franklin, said: "As a comic writer, Helen is without equal. In 2007, Bridget Jones's Diary was named as one of the 10 novels that best defined the 20th century.
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In the novel, she is likely to be quite a bit younger.) And does that make her out of step with her contemporaries? Her fans' reactions were mixed on Mumsnet: "Will be Zimmer fighting and creaking bones during the sex scenes" "Bridget should be left in the 1990s" "The first book captured a particular time for a particular group of women … the second book/film was just terrible" "I would like some trash like this … bring it on." Would Bridget still be counting calories and units in her 40s? (In theory, she should be at least 50. Bridget's creator, Helen Fielding, revealed on Radio 4's Woman's Hour that Bridget is still trying to kick the booze and the fags and is still on a diet. Last week, the title of a long-awaited (and assumed non-existent) third novel, to be published on 10 October, was announced: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. And this time she's got a mobile phone and a Twitter account. DO NOT TEXT WHEN DRUNK."īridget Jones is back.