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Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding

  • 310 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1996
  • 88 editions
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1 About this book

Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships.

Good for readers who want: humor and friendship.

  • Humor
  • Friendship
  • Single women
  • Diary fiction
  • Publishing
  • Women
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  • Dating (Social customs)

2 About Helen Fielding

Born 1958

Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones. Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper. This turned into an unexpected hit, leading to four Bridget Jones novels and four films.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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