Helen Fielding — Mad About the Boy

Jonathan Cape Random House 2013 Paperback, 390pp. WHAT DO YOU DO when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? IS IT WRONG to lie about your age when online dating? IS IT MORALLY WRONG to have a blow-dray when one of your children has head lice? DOES THE DALAI LAMA actually tweet or is it his assistant? IS TECHNOLOGY now the the fifth element? Or is that wood? IS SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-moterhood, tweeting, texting and rediscovering her sexually in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'. Small creases to cover. (ISBN: 9780224098106). Good.