Bridget Jones's Diary

The multi-million-copy number one bestseller.Welcome to Bridget’s first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships?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.Helen Fielding's first Bridget Jones novel, Bridget Jones's Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen four books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film series Bridget Jones's Diary, The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones's Baby and Mad About the Boy.‘Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching’ Jilly Cooper, The Daily Telegraph

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, Wild comedy . . . observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book, The best, the original, the seminal, Bridget Jones's Diary rings with the unmistakable tone of something that is true to the marrow. It defines what it describes, I cannot recommend a book more joyfully . . . Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching

Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She has written five novels, Cause Celeb, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. She also co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter.