Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen FieldingThis sequel concerns Bridget Jones, a single, girl about town on an optimistic but doomed quest for self improvement. If she could just get down to 8st 7lb, stop smoking and develop inner poise, all would be resolved.

It soon becomes clear

as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey

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author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain

one year after Daniel and Bea have married

and then flashes back to his boyhood growing up in a prince's palace as a member of a progressive Manchu Catholic intellectual family

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and never lost sight of the strength that made her a star

Aciman is a master of sensibility

This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic

and ''he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case''

from childhood to soldier to old age