title: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: A Novel
author:  Helen Fielding 
description: "One of the most enchanting heroines to ever overdraw her bank account." --<b>USA Today</b><br />
zlib_text: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
  
  By Helen Fielding 1999
  
  To the other Bridgets
  
  **Acknowledgements**
  
  With thanks to Gillon Aitken, Sunetra Atkinson, Peter Bennet-Jones, Frankie
  
  Bridgewood, Richard Coles, Richard Curtis, Scarlett Curtis, Pam Dorman, Ursula
  
  Doyle, Breene Farrington, Nellie Fielding, the Fielding family, First Circle
  
  Films, Andrew Forbes, Colin Firth, Paula Fletcher, Piers Fletcher, Henrietta
  
  Perkins, Tracey MacLeod, Sharon Maguire, Tina Jenkins, Sara Jones, Emma Parry,
  
  Harry Ritchie, Sarah Sands, Tom Shone, Peter Straus, Russ Warner, Working
  Title
  
  Films, for inspiration, feedback and support.
  
  And special thanks to Kevin Curran.
  
  Research by Sara Jones
  
  1 Happily Ever After
  
  Monday 27 January
  
  9st 3 (total fat groove), boyfriends 1 (hurrah!), shags 3 (hurrah!), calories
  2,
  
  100, calories used up by shags 600, so total calories 1,500 (exemplary).
  
  7.15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days
  
  now have been in functional relationsh