TITLE FOR NEW BRIDGET JONES NOVEL REVEALED:

The big knickers, the fireman’s pole or the reindeer jumper. We all have our favourite Bridget Jones’s moment.

Bridget Jones’s Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century, in a survey conducted by the Guardian newspaper.

Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, and its sequel, together have sold more than 15 million copies, were published in 40 different countries and both were adapted into blockbuster films starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth.

And now, Random House NZ is delighted to reveal the title of the third book -

“BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY”

HELEN FIELDING’S NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED 10 OCTOBER 2013

BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY represents a totally new phase in Bridget’s life. As Fielding says ‘Bridget’s life has moved on.’ But, the question is, just how much? And which boy is Bridget mad about?

Extract from Mad About The Boy

Wednesday 24 October 2012

11.27 p.m. Just presss d SEND. Iss fineisn’t it?

You see, this is the trouble with the modern world. If it was the days of letter-writing, I would never even have started to find his address, a pen, a piece of paper, an envelope, a stamp, and gone outside at 11.30p.m. to find a postbox. A text is gone at the brush of a fingertip, like a nuclear bomb

or exocet missile.

DATING RULE NO:1

DO NOT TEXT WHEN DRUNK

Jonathan Cape (a Random House Group company) today revealed the title for the new Bridget Jones novel by Helen Fielding: BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY. The novel will be published on 10 October 2013 (and will also be published as an ebook and as a Random House Audiobook).

When asked which boy Bridget was mad about, Fielding merely raised one eyebrow enigmatically.

Fielding’s first book, Bridget Jones’s Diary, was an international bestseller and global phenomenon when it was originally published in 1996. It was followed in 1999 by a sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Together, the novels sold more than 15 million copies and were published in 40

different countries and both were adapted into blockbuster films starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Bridget Jones’s Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century, in a survey conducted by the Guardian newspaper.

BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY represents a totally new phase in Bridget’s life. As Fielding says ‘Bridget’s life has moved on.’ But, the question is, just how much? ….What we can share is that the novel is set in present-day London; Bridget is older; she is still keeping a diary, but she is also immersed in texting and experimenting with social media, with an emphasis on ‘Social’!

Dan Franklin, Jonathan Cape Publishing Director said: ‘As a comic writer, Helen is without equal. Over fifteen years ago she gave a voice to a generation of young women with the original Bridget book; now they’ve grown up and she’s doing it again in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy -- this time with all the joys and complications of social media.’

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