'Bridget Jones' shocker: Latest 'Bridget Jones' novel gets fans buzzing
'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' was excerpted in the Sunday Times, revealing a shocking plot development in the new novel. The 'Bridget Jones' novels have previously been adapted into two films.
'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' was excerpted in the Sunday Times, revealing a shocking plot development in the new novel. The 'Bridget Jones' novels have previously been adapted into two films.
Take a deep breath, 鈥淏ridget Jones鈥� fans 鈥� and stop here if you don鈥檛 want any spoilers before the third 鈥淏ridget Jones鈥� novel, 鈥淏ridget Jones: Mad About the Boy鈥� by Helen Fielding, is released this month.
The British newspaper the Sunday Times released an excerpt of the new novel in its magazine this past weekend. According to the Times, Bridget and her love interest Mark Darcy married and had two children, but Mark Darcy has since died and "Mad" finds Bridget as a widow.
Some readers are not pleased, to say the least.
鈥渉ow could they kill off Mark Darcy?!鈥� a user named Sam Garcia tweeted, while a user named Kristy Lear wrote, 鈥淛ust heard about the new Bridget jones storyline... I think it's fair to say I'm not the only girl in the world who's going to be dev[a]stated.鈥�
A Twitter user named Saba Rizvi wrote, 鈥淢r. Darcy cannot die!! It wd b like killing the hopes and dreams of millions!鈥�
鈥淢ad About the Boy鈥� is due to be released Oct. 15 in the US. The 鈥淏ridget鈥� story began as a column written by Fielding for the British newspaper The Independent in 1995 and the first book, 鈥淏ridget Jones鈥� Diary,鈥� was released in 1996 and a sequel, 鈥淏ridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,鈥� arrived in 1999. Fielding briefly revived the column in The Independent between 2005 and 2006.
The first two books were adapted into two films starring Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones, Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, and Hugh Grant as Bridget鈥檚 other love interest Daniel Cleaver.