SOURCE: A review of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in Times Literary Supplement, No. 5044, December 3, 1999.

In the following review, Potts lauds Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and asserts that the book touches on contemporary themes such as physical and spiritual self-development and sexual etiquette.

Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding's comic creation, returns in time for Christmas, unusually good timing for a woman whose punctuality is regularly ridiculed by her boss (“Come on Bridget Droopy-Drawers Late Again!”). Her name has become a synonym for a dizzy, relationship-obsessed thirty-something woman; her diaristic shorthand, totalling calories, cigarettes, glasses of Chardonnay, weight and other obsessions, has been copied with flattering regularity. She is daft, shallow and neurotic; she is also endearingly funny in her manic enthusiasms and petulant disappointments. For those who loved her the first time round, the fact that she has not changed much should be a source of...