Bridget Jones's Diary

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THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? As Bridget documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question (Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy?), she turns for support to four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay. PRAISE FOR BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY "A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time ... reads like Anita Loos out of Jane Austen, and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar" The Times "I cannot recommend a book more joyfully ... Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching" Daily Telegraph "Rings with the unmistakable tone of something that is true to the marrow. It defines what it describes" Times Literary Supplement "Wild comedy ... observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book" Sunday Times "Effortlessly addictive ... presents a perfect zeitgeist of single female woes" Sunday Express

Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She is the author of Cause Celeb (1994), Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2000), Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (2003), and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2013). She co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.

A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time . . . reads like Anita Loos out of Jane Austen, and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar * The Times * A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh -- Salman Rushdie Wild comedy . . . observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book * Sunday Times * Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain and Bridget Jones is a creation of comic genius -- Nick Hornby The best, the original, the seminal * Mail on Sunday * Bridget Jones's Diary rings with the unmistakable tone of something that is true to the marrow. It defines what it describes -- Nicola Shulman * Times Literary Supplement * I cannot recommend a book more joyfully . . . Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching -- Jilly Cooper * Daily Telegraph * Effortlessly addictive . . . [Bridget Jones's] hilarious diary presents a perfect zeitgeist of single female woes * Sunday Express *