Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries, by Helen Fielding, will be published by Jonathan Cape on 11 October 2016. Based on Fielding’s original columns in The Independent, the diaries tell Bridget’s story of her somewhat bumpy journey into motherhood.
As she careers towards baby-deadline, tortured by Smug Mothers miming her ticking biological clock, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy – but just not quite as intended. It’s a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair – but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question – ‘Who’s the FatherIJ’
Rights for the novel were acquired from Creative Artists Agency by Richard Cable, Managing Director at Vintage, for Jonathan Cape. Translation rights will be handled by Aitken Alexander Associates in the UK. The book will be available in hardback, ebook and audiobook formats.
Helen Fielding’s novel Bridget Jones’s Diary was an international bestseller and a global phenomenon when it was first published in 1996. Fielding followed in 1999 with a sequel, Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason and in 2013 with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. All three were phenomenal international bestsellers and have been published in 40 different countries.
Helen Fielding said, “At heart Bridget Jones is about the gap between how we all feel we’re expected to be and how we actually are and – as Bridget discovers with her somewhat bumpy pregnancy — how we expect life to turn out and how it actually does. I’m excited to see Bridget’s world on the big screen again.”