‘Bridget Jones's phenomenal success is not just because of her creator's brilliant wit, comic timing and social observation, but because she captures what - alas - it is like to be female ... I laughed out loud many times while reading The Edge of Reason. Fielding is excellent at a mixture of perception and comedy, capturing thoughts everyone has but hasn't actually expressed'--Sally Emerson, Daily Mail

‘Bridget is probably the most successful comic creation of this decade, the most controversial and talked-about female fictional character since Lolita... Bridget terminology has slipped into common parlance ... She is still on superb form'--Stephanie Merritt, Observer

The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones"s 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 and he hasn"t done the washing-up,not just the whole of this week, but ever.Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and 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, and 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- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of...

1. HAPPILY EVER AFTER

2. JELLYFISH AT LARGE

3. DOOOOMI

4. PERSUASION

5. MR DARCY, MR DARCY

6. ITALIAN JOB

7. MOOD-SWINGING SINGLETONS

8. OH BABY

9. SOCIAL HELL

10. MARS AND VENUS IN THE DUSTBIN

11. THAI TAKEAWAY

12. STRANGE TIMES

13. GAAAH!

14. FOR BETrER OR WORSE?

15. EXCESS CHRISTMAS SPIRIT