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Published: 1st September 1997
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Bridget Jones's Diary
By (Author) Helen Fielding
Pan Macmillan
Picador
1st September 1997
6th November 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Winner of National Book Awards Book of the Year 1998 (UK)
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 22mm
222g
The multi-million copy Number One Bestseller 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 Helen Fielding's first Bridget Jones novel, Bridget Jones's Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen three books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film series Bridget Jones' Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones's Baby.
I cannot recommend a book more joyfully . . . Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching. -- Jilly Cooper * Daily Telegraph *
Brilliant . . . any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar. -- Gill Hornby * The Times *
Effortlessly addictive . . . presents a perfect zeitgeist of single female woes. * Sunday Express *
A brilliant comic creation . . . even men will laugh. -- Salman Rushdie
A gloriously funny book. * Sunday Times *
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 (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 also co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.