Bridget Jones's Diary
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Bridget Jones's Diary is a novel by Helen Fielding.
The diary evolved from English newspaper columns in The Independent and later The Daily Telegraph which lampooned the obsessions of women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider societal trends in Britain at the time. The columns were made into a novel in 1996.
It chronicles the life of Bridget Jones, a thirtysomething singleton woman living in London, surrounded by a 'surrogate family' of friends as she tries to make sense of life and love in the 1990s. The column lampooned the obsessions of women's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider societal trends in Britain at the time. The columns were made into a novel in 1996.
A sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, followed in 1999, and a movie based on second book was released in 2004. See Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (movie).fr:Le Journal de Bridget Jones