Naturally, Fielding’s decision to kill off Mark Darcy in her third instalment, Mad About The Boy, has left many wondering how he can now be potentially fathering Bridget’s first child (in both the new book and film, she’s initially not sure who the baby daddy is).

So, here’s our best explanation of the situation, given that there’s little in the way of ‘official’ information.

Due to be released on 11 October following the Bridget Jones’s Baby film starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey, the book is thought to be a prequel to third book Mad About The Boy.

While in Mad About The Boy we meet Bridget as a 51-year-old widow and mother of two, Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries will backtrack nearly 20 years to pick up just after second book The Edge Of Reason.

According to the synopsis: “As she careers towards baby-deadline, tortured by Smug Mothers miming her ticking biological clock, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy – but just not quite as intended.

“It’s a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair – but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question – ‘Who’s the Father?’”

Confused or not, we can’t wait.

Helen Fielding reveals the cover for the fourth Bridget Jones book