Bridget Jones's Diary
Subtitle: a novel
By: Helen Fielding
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition (10)
Series: Bridget Jones, #1
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780141000190
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Dieting for women; Publishing; English Diary novels; Single women; Fiction; Single people; Bridget Jones (Fictitious character); Triangles (Interpersonal relations); English Humous fiction; Dating (Social customs); Office romance; Friendship; Women
Description: Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could:
a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise

"123 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)..."

Bridget Jones' Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she 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.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. 
--back cover
Notes: Originally published: 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 1998.