Bridget Jones’s Diary follows the fortunes of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement. Cheered by feminist ranting with her friends Jude. Shazzer and 'hag-fag’ Tom, humiliated at Smug Marrieds’ dinner parties, crazed by parental attempts to fix her up with a rich divorcee in a diamond-patterned sweater, Bridget lurches from torrid affair to pregnancy-scare convinced that if she could just get down to 8st 7, stop smoking and develop Inner Poise, all would be resolved. 

          Bridget Jones First came to public attention in Helen Fielding’s hugely popular fictional diary in the Independent newspaper. In this novel based on her creation, Fielding offers us a brilliantly funny picaresque tale: a year in the life of a girl determined to 'have it all’ — the second she’s finished this cigarette and phoned Shazzer. 

          "A brilliant evocation of the life of a single girl in a certain time….. Any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or, indeed, a mother, will read it and roar"       Gill Hornby, The Times

          Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire and lives in London. She worked for several years for the BBC (where she produced documentaries in Africa for Comic Relief) and now writes for various national newspapers. Her first novel was Cause Celeb.