How long does it take to read Bridget Jones?
The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding takes about 7 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 418 pages, about 114,950 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Edge of Reason is the sequel to Helen Fielding's number one best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary. It has been turned into a film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is followed by Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Notting Hill to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of . . . Bridget is back.
Subjects: Diary fiction, Single women, Fiction, Histoires d'amour, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, women
