Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Mwah! Bridget! You’ve lost SO much weight!’
(He’s said this every time he’s seen me for the last fifteen years, even when I was nine months pregnant.)

What is happening to me? Just put three dresses into my shopping basket. Then logged off. Then logged on again and realized I felt hurt because none of the dresses had winked back.

‘Why did he have to wreck it? Everyone meets online now. Turning out to be nuts is such a cliché.’

‘Nuclear families? I never see Jake from one month to the next. He’s always off on some gig or tour, and when he appears it’s frequently like having some kind of teenage stoner in the house.’