Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones's Diary
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Summary
Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.
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Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.
'Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain and Bridget Jones is a creation of comic genius' Nick Hornby
'I cannot recommend a book more joyfully. . Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching' Jilly Cooper, Daily Telegraph
'The best, the original, the seminal' Mail on Sunday
'A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh' Salman Rushdie
'Effortlessly addictive . . . [Bridget Jones's] hilarious diary presents a perfect zeitgeist of single female woes' Sunday Express
‘Wild comedy . . . observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book’ Sunday Times
‘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
'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
'The best, the original, the seminal' Mail on Sunday
'A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh' Salman Rushdie
'Effortlessly addictive . . . [Bridget Jones's] hilarious diary presents a perfect zeitgeist of single female woes' Sunday Express
‘Wild comedy . . . observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book’ Sunday Times
‘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
'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
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 is the author of 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 co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780330332767 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330332767 |
| Title | Bridget Jones's Diary |
| Author | Helen Fielding |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 1996-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Awards Book of the Year 1998 (UK), Winner of Specsavers Platinum Bestseller Award 2017 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |