Helen Fielding is older, wiser, and so is Bridget Jones (USA News)

USA News __London — British creator Helen Fielding's most beloved shade is blue.

Do you have to realize that? Not by any stretch of the imagination. Actually, perhaps.

"I once requested a bundle from Tory (British Conservative Party) legislators what their most beloved fish was," Fielding tells Usa Today as Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Knopf), the third novel in her fiercely mainstream arrangement, goes on special Tuesday. "One said "shark." These sorts of inquiries might be extremely uncovering."

Blue is relevant/revealing for two explanations: 1) Mad About the Boy leaves from arrangement sort and is similarly a "Sad About the Boy" kind of undertaking; 2) In The Edge of Reason — the second book in this worldwide distributed wonder — growing writer Bridget meetings Pride and Prejudice star Colin Firth. What's more Bridget, awed, untidy, bush-league, bird-brained, yet adorable all the same, opens her genuine question with the smooth heartthrob Firth (who unexpectedly would wind up playing the Mark Darcy character in the Bridget Jones films) with a truly hard, major class reporting address: "What's your top choice color?"

It's blue.

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At the same time that was then and this is currently. At 55, Fielding, and her psychotic, ungainly, calorie-checking diarist Bridget (now 51), have expanded out. It has been about 14 years since The Edge of Reason was distributed in the United States, and very nearly 16 years since we were acquainted with the 30-something singleton in Bridget

"I'm more seasoned and this character is more seasoned and I needed to expound on genuine articles and how they exist together," Fielding says. "It might have been simpler to simply bear on doing the same thing."

Right away become flushed, the scholar numerous ladies say expertly pinpointed the anxieties and forces confronting single ladies in their 30s takes on the likeness of anything besides Bridget-like. Stylishly, its all tasteful, costly looking neutrals. Nothing appears not well fitted, the hair is not "everywhere throughout the spot" yet rather a magnetic "nectar gold," as Vogue magazine put it in a later profile.

No nourishment stains are in confirmation, or at any rate they are well-stowed away. Assuming that there are smokes and wine close-by, they, too, have been stashed well far from the tasteful, Georgian building in London's Fitzroy Square that Fielding and her different minders have assumed control for the day to advertise the new book.

"When I was in my 20s I couldn't envision that life might even now be going ahead in my 40s or more seasoned. At the same time it is. Ladies that I see around me are still defenseless," Fielding says, contending that it this helplessness that records for the persevering claim of her weight-fixated, unlucky-enamored, comedic creation.

"One of the minutes that most hit me at an opportune time with the response to Bridget was the point at which I was in Japan and an extremely exciting and slight and auspicious reporter up to me and said she related to Bridget's weight reduction issues, and I considered: 'There is something exceptionally profound about how you are required to be and how you really are.'
Obviously, its considerably all the more befuddling for ladies now," Fielding says. "The immersion of pictures of flawlessness and thoughts regarding how you should be as a lady have expanded enormously since I initially began expounding on singletons."

Singletons vs. Egotistical Marrieds. These two terms, and bay between the two, are the trees on which Bridget Jones has been resting for a decade now. "Rather embarrassingly I used to brag about having imagined the expression "singleton," however then I uncovered it was (British creator) P.g. Wodehouse," Fielding says.

Numerous million duplicates of her books later, not a single person seems to have recognized.

It's enticing to presume that this may be to a limited extent in light of the fact that the general population governing rules of social media were not completely there to weed it out for her. The Internet and its requisition to the dating diversion is a subject that is writ extensive in the pages of Mad About the Boy, however Fielding concedes to an indecision about how to apply it in her own existence.

"I did do it (Twitter) for a spell utilizing the @bridgetjoneshf name. I even made ones for Darcy and (Bridget's coy ex-manager) Daniel yet it got truly confused, I was intrigued at first, however I got excessively obsessive and its a catastrophe provided that you attempt to compose in the meantime," she says.

"Everybody is so occupied nowadays. Too occupied. Also innovation is part of this sense that you ought to be all these things, do all these things, answer all these things."

There has been no action on the @bridgetjoneshf handle since February.

Fielding has a warm and trusting tone to her way. This may be to some extent to do with her establishes in Britain's northern region of Yorkshire, a spot where two developed men can call one another" "cherish" without anybody batting an eyelid.

With the new book, however, commentators have so far not been excessively kind. Frantic About the Boy was distributed in the U.k. on Oct. 10, and starting surveys were full of expressions, for example "tone is all wrong" (Telegraph), "new wistfulness (Guardian) and "heap up of prosaisms" (Sunday Times)

This doesn't seem, by all accounts, to be harming deals, in any case. The book is close to the highest point of the smash hit record on Amazon's U.k. site. U.s. analysts may be kinder. (Individuals magazine gives the novel 4 stars; Usa Today gives it 3 out of 4, however the day by day New York Times called it a "pitiful, untethered book.") Nbc's Today show has chosen Mad About the Boy as its second pick for its new book club.

Fielding is anxious to bring up that she is not, and never has been, Bridget, and that there is more than one fictional string to her bow.

"Initially, Mad About the Boy wasn't indeed, set to be a 'Bridget book.' I simply had something to say and needed to express it. At that point, as I composed more I acknowledged it was that same individual," she says, including, "One of the grand things about existence is that it is always developing. I was in my 30s when I first expounded on Bridget and by then we (ladies) were still saddled with the thought that we could wind up being a disastrous, fruitless old maid who was set to pass on alone and wind up being consumed by a puppy."

The jury's out on if the tribulations of sentiment and responsibility have moved in the interceding years since Bridget was conceived — age 32— in the pages of the Independent daily paper in 1995. On the other hand, things have unquestionably changed for both ladies: One genuine, one envisioned.

For a begin, in Mad About the Boy, Mark Darcy, Bridget's charming, well-to-do, English-all inclusive school-cum-human-rights-legal counselor sort playmate, is (spoiler alarm!) dead. (You read that effectively.) And when news of this plot advancement first broke it practiced the worldwide neighborhood of Darcy devotees, a significant number of whom were left so reeling by the demise of the heading man that they took to Twitter to vent different types of "What the blazes do you suppose you're doing?" Some were more well mannered than others.

Parenthood is something that Fielding and Bridget are both now juggling, and much of Mad About the Boy is offered over to Bridget's trademark way of excitedly working out progressively how to get along in a bold new universe of kid raising and innovation — at the same time dating a hot adolescent thing, brushing nits out the youngsters' hair and having bunches of unrivaled sex, in a perfect world while on a climbing smaller than expected break provided that she can swing it.

Fielding is conscious its not dependably simple.

"Kids and sex are two things you can't control. There is a propensity now to feel that we need to keep youngsters on this lasting high from an African drumming gathering to a Build-A-Bear gathering to Pcs to fencing to woodwind. I recollect as a kid using hours and hours roller-skating around under the washing line imagining I was at live-in school for roller-skaters. That may not happen as much now," she says.

 "Especially when ladies have worked the allurement is to believe that since you need to do truly well at work you likewise need to do truly well at raising kids," says Fielding, who has a 7-year-old child and 9-year-old little girl with the American comic drama author Kevin Curran. They are divided.

Fielding invests the vast majority of her opportunity in London now, yet still looks after a home in Los Angeles and says, "It's incredible to be in a spot where individuals aren't intrigued by you. Hollywood is intrigued by film stars, not essayists." Fielding says that Los Angeles has a "ravishing delicacy about it."

So what happens now that the new book is out?

"I truly need to invest time doing ordinary stuff like disposing of the prams in the upper room, placing pictures in picture casings, cleaning out the covers from the lobby," Fielding says, declining to answer straight if there is another film in the lives up to expectations, if we can want an alternate Bridget book or regardless of the possibility that there's another man about the Fielding family.

"What I will let you know is that there is an instructor at my youngsters' school whose name is Mr. Wallaker (a Daniel Craig-esque character in Mad About the Boy) and in spite of the fact that he is not the Mr. Wallaker in the book he does have an extremely great name."

Does the educator look like (James Bond on-screen character) Craig?

"He doesn't look like Daniel Craig. Anyhow on the grounds that I like Mr. Wallaker a ton, I am set to say that he does."