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Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel

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Overview

Bridget Jones is 30-something and single. She feels certain she would have all the answers if only she could:

a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise.

Bridget Jones's Diary is a devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement!

Editorial Reviews

Bridget Jones takes us into her world of the 30-plus unmarried career woman. Her daily life is seen largely through her diary entries, which regularly include comments on her alcohol, cigarette, and calorie consumption. She chronicles her unending search for a lasting relationship with the right man while continuing to tolerate attempts by her parents and married friends to match her up with every available bachelor. At times Bridget contemplates a permanent single status as she also realizes that she must face the responsibility of taking part in solving her parents' problems as they once did for her. The often self-deprecating diary entries are both humorous and incisive. Barbara Rosenblat's lively narration does justice to Fielding's pointed dialog and the diverse personalities of Bridget's friends and family. A good commentary on contemporary life, this is recommended for adult fiction collections.--Catherine Swenson, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, VT Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Author Information

Bio of Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding, 1958 - Helen Fielding was born in 1958 in an industrial town in Northern England. She attended Oxford where she studied English, with dreams of writing one day. After college, Fielding got a job working for the BBC television studios. Her first book was called "Cause Celeb" and was based on the experiences she had while filming documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief. She also wrote the screenplay for the movie "Bridget Jones' Diary" which is based on her book of the same name. Helen Fielding is a journalist who lives in London. She is currently at work on both the screenplay of and a sequel to Bridget's adventures.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Penguin Group E-Books

Filesize

1.54 MB

Number of Pages

288

eBook ISBN

9780786566709

Awards

  • Audie Award
  • Galaxy British Book Awards
  • New York Times Notable Books of the Year

Excerpt from: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

Smoke.

Waste money on: pasta makers, ice-cream machines or other culinary devices which will never use; books by unreadable literary authors to put impressively on shelves; exotic underwear, since pointless as have no boyfriend.

Behave sluttishly around the house, but instead imagine others are watching.

Spend more than earn.

Allow in-tray to rage out of control.

Fall for any of following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomaniacs, chauvinists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.

Get annoyed with Mum, Una Alconbury or Perpetua.

Get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

Have crushes on men, but instead form relationships based on mature assessment of character.

Bitch about anyone behind their backs, but be positive about everyone.

Obsess about Daniel Cleaver as pathetic to have a crush on boss in manner of Miss Moneypenny or similar.

Sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.