Bridget Darcy, nee Jones, is mother to two children and is deeply mourning the loss of Mark Darcy 5 years earlier. Through her revision of her diary 4 years after the loss of Mark, the reader is taken on Bridget's journey to bring herself out of her loss and back into the world. Not just the world of dating, but back to happiness and to feeling like Bridget again. 
 This book was surprisingly sad. The entire book she mourns Mark. She does find happiness again, but there's always that "what might have been" there that makes it bitter sweet. It had its funny, laugh-out-loud moments that you expect from Bridget, but for the majority of the book, you just feel bad for her and you cry along with her. 
 This was a vastly different book from her previous light-hearted singleton Bridget Jones's diary, but I suppose that's life, too.