October 11, 2013

Only Fools and Publishers: new Bridget Jones book confused with David Jason’s memoir

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In Mad About Del Boy, Bridget gets a new squeeze, and he’s even got his own Reliant Regal

For those struggling to decide which book to buy on Super Thursday, Random House made it easier for readers yesterday when it was discovered that, due to an error at the printers, some copies of the highly-anticipated new Bridget Jones novel, Mad About the Boy, contained sections of David Jason’s autobiography, My Life.

While Mad About the Boy is a novel about ‘the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her [Bridget’s] sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call ‘middle age’, My Life will tell of how Jason ‘kitted out with a sheepskin jacket, a flat cap, and a clapped-out Reliant Regal’ captured the British nation’s hearts as ‘the beloved Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter in Only Fools and Horses.’

Random House described the printers as having  ‘a Bridget Moment’, but of course it’s a perfect Del Boy moment too, it’s just like him to be engaging in such a get-rich-quick scheme – he’ll get a share of the royalties right?

For some, Mad about Del Boy will be the perfect British book. Bridget’s experience of the trials and tribulations of love in Holland Park will be thought-provokingly contrasted against Jason’s memories of Del Boy’s high-rise council flat in Peckham, and Bridget’s ever-adorable jokes about wine and chocolate and losing 5 lbs will be drawn out beautifully through Del Boy’s best-loved insults, ‘dipstick’ and ‘plonker’.

Lovely jubbly.

 

 

Zeljka Marosevic is the managing director of Melville House UK.

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