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Jun 01, 1999 | ISBN 9780140280098 Buy
Jun 01, 1999 | ISBN 9781101199541 Buy
Apr 10, 2001 | 180 Minutes Buy
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Jun 01, 1999 | ISBN 9780140280098
Jun 01, 1999 | ISBN 9781101199541
Apr 10, 2001 | ISBN 9780375419638
180 Minutes
USA Today‘s top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing The iconic #1 bestseller by Helen Fielding; Bridget Jones is now the inspiration for the September 2016 Working Title film release of Bridget Jones’s Baby, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey and Emma Thompson. Bridget Jones’s Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, “How’s your love life?” with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation, Bridget Jones’s Diary has touched a raw nerve with millions of readers the world round. Read it and laugh—before you cry, “Bridget Jones is me!”
Newly released movie tie-in edition!Meet Bridget Jones — a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers is she could:a) lose 7 poundsb) stop smokingc) develop Inner PoiseHere is the laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of a hilarious year in the life of the devastatingly self-aware Bridget Jones; a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult.Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel — or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, she manages to pick herself up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time and totally alcohol, calorie, and perverted-misogynist free.Bridget Jones’s Diary will make you like yourself for precisely those things you’re most ashamed of. And through it all, Bridget Jones will have you helpless with laughter, and shouting,"Bridget Jones is me!"
Helen Fielding is the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries. She was part of the screenwriting team on the associated movies. She has two children and… More about Helen Fielding
“Screamingly funny!”—USA Today“Bridget Jones is channeling something so universal and (horrifyingly) familiar that readers will giggle and sigh with collective delight.”—Elle“Fielding . . . has rummaged all too knowingly through the bedrooms, closets, hearts, and minds of women everywhere.”—Glamour“Hilarious and poignant.”—The Washington Post“Bridget Jones’s diary has made her the best friend of hundreds of thousands of women.”—The New York Times“A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh.”—Salman Rushdie
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