FIELDING, HELEN
u003ciu003eBridget Jones's Diaryu003c/iu003e was first published in 1996 and applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number one best-seller, Helen Fielding's book has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. u003ciu003eBridget Jones's Diaryu003c/iu003e is followed by u003ciu003eBridget Jones: The Edge of Reasonu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.u003c/iu003e Bridget Jones is everyone's favourite spinster. In u003ciu003eBridget Jones's Diaryu003c/iu003e she documents her struggles through the social minefield of her 30s and tries to weigh up the eternal question: Daniel Cleaver of Mark Darcy? She is supported through the whole process by four indispensable friends, Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay. A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?
