SOURCE: “In Courtship, Self-Help Helps Those Who Help Themselves,” in Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 2000, p. 19.

In the following review of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Leach praises the novel as an “endearing” comedy of errors.

Girl meets boy, falls in love, and lives fabulous, romantic life, whizzing off to ridiculously exotic places where they even eat breakfast by candlelight. You know the scenario.

Only it almost never happens that way. Not in real life, at least. And especially not in the world of Men Who Can't Commit that Bridget Jones inhabits.

The thirtysomething Londoner's road from Singleton to Smug Married—as she brands the illusive club of the wedded—is hilariously tortuous. And we get to feel every bump along the way.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is Helen Fielding's second foray into the dating wilderness of Bridget's life, and it pokes fun at the absurdities...