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    Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Bridget Jones’s Diary with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, which follows a thirtysomething single woman in London as she embarks on a series of disastrous romantic relationships and, despite her best intentions, flounders in her professional life. With a memorable cast of characters, including Mark Darcy, Bridget’s best friends and her acerbic and interfering mother, the book’s humour and originality have won over legions of followers. Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason have been published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. They have both been adapted into successful films. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy spent 26 weeks at the top of The Sunday Times bestseller list and has sold over 2 million copies in 36 countries. Helen Fielding is an English novelist, screenwriter and journalist and, in addition to her books, has written columns for The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Telegraph.
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    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateNov 9, 2016
    ISBN9782806281166
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      Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      British novelist and journalist

      Born in Morley (England) in 1958

      Notable works:

      Cause Celeb (1994), novel

      Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996), novel

      Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (2004), novel

      After graduating with a degree in English from Oxford University, Helen Fielding worked as a journalist for the BBC. She then became a columnist for the newspaper The Independent, where she created the character of Bridget Jones. In 1994 she published her first novel, Cause Celeb. When Bridget Jones’s Diary was published, the author achieved international success with this ‘chick-lit’ book that was loved by women across several generations.

      The fact that Fielding is British is particularly noticeable in her cultural references, which include the novels of Emily Brontë (English writer, 1818-1848) and the presenters of British television programmes. Whatever the dramatic content of the subjects she deals with, the journalist always manages to evoke them with a touch of humour.

      In praise of awkwardness

      Genre: novel

      Reference editions:

      Fielding, H. (1996) Bridget Jones’s Diary. London: Picador.

      Fielding, H. (1999) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. London: Picador.

      Fielding, H. (2013) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. London: Jonathan Cape.

      First editions: 1996, 1999 and 2013

      Themes: social conventions, emotional relationships, feminism,

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