Bridget Jones is on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement. Cheered by feminist ranting with friends Jude, Shazzer and 'fag-hag' Tom, humiliated at Smug Marrieds' dinner parties, crazed by parental attempts to fix her up with a rich divorcee in a diamond-patterned sweater, Bridget is convinced that if she could just get down to 8st 7lbs, stop smoking and develop Inner Poise, all would be resolved. In this brilliantly funny picaresque tale, Fielding shows us a year in the life of a girl determined to 'have it all' - the second she's finished this cigarette and phoned Shazzer. 'A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh' Salman Rushdie; 'Gloriously unedifying' Libby Purves; 'I cannot recommend a book more joyfully...Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching' Jilly Cooper, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph; 'Wild comedy...observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book' Penny Perrick, Sunday Times