title: Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
author:  Helen Fielding 
description: In the course of the year recorded in <i>Bridget Jones's Diary</i>, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and &quot;Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way).&quot; In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.
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  **HELEN FIELDING**
  
  
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  **Bridget Jones's Diary**
  
  
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  **a novel**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **PICADOR**
  
  
  First published 1996 by Picador
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published 1997 by Picador
  
  
  an imprint of MacMillan Publishers Ltd
  
  
  25 Eccleston Place, London SWIW 9NF
  
  
  Basingstoke and Oxford
  
  
  Associated companies throughout the world
  
  
  www.macmillan.co.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 0 330 33277 5
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Helen Fielding 1996
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of Helen Fielding to be identified as the
  
  
  author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance
  
  
  with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, place,
  
  
  organizations, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination
  or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, organizations, or
  persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  'A Christmas Poem', _Serious Concer