Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a
1999 novel by
Helen Fielding, a sequel to her popular
Bridget Jones's Diary. It chronicles
Bridget Jones's adventures after she begins to suspect that her boyfriend, Mark Darcy, is falling for a rich young solicitor who works in the same firm as him, a woman called Rebecca. The
comic novel follows the characteristic ups and downs of the self-proclaimed singleton's first real relationship in several years. It also involves many misunderstandings, a few work mishaps, and an adventure in
Southeast Asia involving planted drugs and Madonna songs.