BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON

Austen, as before, in Fielding''s model, radically but affectionately updated . . . There is, to be honest, a bit of Bridget Jones in a lot of the women and men of a certain generation, and to have those aspects so affectionately rendered, and both ridiculed and subversively celebrated, is a welcome treat'' Robert Potts, TLS