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Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel

The #1 bestselling book that defined the 20th century—now updated for the 25th Anniversary!

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

Bridget Jones’s 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: visit the gym three times a week, not just to buy a sandwich, form a relationship with a functional adult, and learn to work the television remote.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and—like millions of readers the world round—you’ll find yourself shouting, “Bridget Jones is me!”

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Published Jun 1, 1999

336 pages

Average rating: 6.64

92 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

@MissLitLife
Jan 09, 2025
7/10 stars
This is one of those fun reads and it is so fitting reading this at the beginning of the year as our grandiose ambitions for self-improvement are already being challenged by the mundane realities of January/return to work...there is something very refreshing, earnest and grounding about Bridget's life, loves and adventures - absolutely relatable and entertaining but also invites one to be a little more kind and gentler with oneself and others - we're all flawed, we all make mistakes and sometimes we do get happy endings/promising beginnings - :)
alicemay
Sep 05, 2024
7/10 stars
3.5/5 stars. Bridget was so jarring and defo had an eating disorder but she was a bit of a larf ! x
Tanika S
Apr 26, 2024
4/10 stars
Absolute dreck. Bad book. Bad book! Very unrelatable.
E Clou
May 10, 2023
6/10 stars
This was such a fun book and funny movie. I really enjoyed both. It's a bit over the top with the romances though and it would have been nice if Bridget Jones had more of a balanced life.

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