The brand new Bridget Jones&rsquo;s Baby film starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Grey&rsquo;s Anatomy favourite Patrick Dempsey is almost here but if that wasn&rsquo;t exciting enough, author Helen Fielding has now confirmed there&rsquo;ll an all new Bridget Jones&rsquo;s Diary book, too.With the film set to hit cinemas in September, Fielding has revealed in an official press release that she&rsquo;ll be publishing Bridget Jones&rsquo;s Baby: The Diaries shortly after on 11th October.The new novel will follow the same plot as the film, telling "Bridget&rsquo;s story of her somewhat bumpy journey into motherhood".Fans of the bestselling book series will remember that in the last instalment, Bridget Jones&rsquo;s Diary: Mad About The Boy, Mark Darcy sadly met a fateful end, leaving Bridget a widow. So it&rsquo;s with great joy that we can reveal that the Bridget Jones&rsquo;s Baby book will pick up long before that happens, meaning Darcy will be back on our pages at his awkwardly perfect best.<img alt="bridget-joneses-baby-film-poster" class="ci-image ci-original" src="https://ui3.assets-asda.com/dm/bridget-joneses-baby-film-poster_GL?scl=1">“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 &ndash; but just not quite as intended,” says the official book teaser.“It&rsquo;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 &ndash; but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question &ndash; ‘Who&rsquo;s the Father?&rsquo;”Talking about her much-loved character taking on the challenge of motherhood, Fielding says: “At heart Bridget Jones is about the gap between how we all feel we&rsquo;re expected to be and how we actually are and &ndash; as Bridget discovers with her somewhat bumpy pregnancy &ndash; how we expect life to turn out and how it actually does."“I&rsquo;m excited to see Bridget&rsquo;s world on the big screen again, and delighted to be published by Jonathan Cape.”It&rsquo;s official &ndash; we cannot wait for this hilarious new read!<iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJsvmscPY9w" width="760"></iframe>

Bridget Jones’s Baby: Helen Fielding confirms there’ll be a new book

By Asda Good Living,8th August 2016

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