32岁的布莉琪·琼斯是一位单身女子，没什么野心和抱负，唯一的一点点愿望就是能减轻体重和找到一份真正的爱情，因为她虽然男朋友换了几个，总也找不到跟自己合拍的人。如果没有两个死党陪在身边，琼斯的生活必然过得更加枯燥无味、让人垂头丧气。
于是，在新年到来的那一天，琼斯决定尝试一种新的生活，让一切从头开始。首先，她要做的就是开始记日记，把生活的方方面面都记录下来，让自己感到变化的喜悦。渐渐地，琼斯的日记成了一本最刺激、最浪漫、最疯狂的书，里面的内容从平时工作、周围的好友到锻炼、饮食、男人、性……经过一系列令人啼笑皆非的故事，每一页都能找到意料之外的惊奇，带给人贺岁的惊讶与欢乐……

The devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something "singleton" on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement.

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The official movie tie-in edition is released with the Miramax/Universal Production starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth, scheduled to open nationwide on April 13.
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In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." 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.
At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"
This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come.
--Kerry Fried
From Publishers Weekly
A huge success in England, this marvelously funny debut novel had its genesis in a column Fielding writes for a London newspaper. It's the purported diary, complete with daily entries of calories consumed, cigarettes smoked, "alcohol units" imbibed and other unsuitable obsessions, of a year in the life of a bright London 30-something who deplores male "fuckwittage" while pining for a steady boyfriend. As dogged at making resolutions for self-improvement as she is irrepressibly irreverent, Bridget also would like to have someone to show the folks back home and their friends, who make "tick-tock" noises at her to evoke the motion of the biological clock. Bridget is knowing, obviously attractive but never too convinced of the fact, and prone ever to fear the worst. In the case of her mother, who becomes involved with a shady Portuguese real estate operator and is about to be arrested for fraud, she's probably quite right. In the case of her boss, Daniel, who sends sexy e-mail messages but really plans to marry someone else, she's a tad blind. And in the case of glamorous lawyer Mark Darcy, whom her parents want her to marry, she turns out to be way off the mark. ("It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy!' and banging your head against a tree.") It's hard to say how the English frame of reference will travel. But, since Bridget reads Susan Faludi and thinks of Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as role models, it just might. In any case, it's hard to imagine a funnier book appearing anywhere this year. Major ad/promo; first serial to Vogue; BOMC and QPB main selections; simultaneous Random House audio; author tour. (July) FYI: A movie is in the works from Working Title, the team that produced Four Weddings and a Funeral.
From Library Journal
In the course of one year, Bridget Jones will consume 11,090,265 calories, smoke 5,277 cigarettes, and write a series of delightfully funny diary entries. This will be no ordinary year in the life of this single, on-the-cusp-of-30 Londoner. She's going to keep at least one New Year's resolution, have dates with two boyfriends, create legendary cooking disasters, and be seen on national TV going up a firehouse poleAinstead of the planned dramatic slide down. If that isn't enough, her mom is getting a new career as the host of the TV program Suddenly Single and will disappear with a Portuguese gigolo. Supported by friends and confused by family, Bridget emerges, if not triumphant, at least hopeful about life and love. Already a best seller in Britain and winner of the Publishing News Book of the Year Award, this book should be equally popular in the United States. Recommended for all fiction collections.
-AJan Blodgett, Davidson Coll., NC
From Booklist
In the wake of the hit TV show Ally McBeal, the market for stories about the lives of hip single women continues to boom. Now British journalist Fielding, in her first novel, which is already a best-seller in Britain, blows all the competition right out of the water. Wry diarist Bridget Jones details a year in her life and her endless search for "inner poise." Such poise is hard to come by when you've invited 10 people to a five-course dinner party, and the velouteof tomato comes out blue because detergent was left in the blender. But Bridget is a master at turning humiliation into ever funnier riffs on everything from date preparation ("Being a woman is worse than being a farmer--there's so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done") to the pleasures of Yuletide ("I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth. . . . It makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are social outcasts"). Brimming with a deliciously irreverent sense of humor and a keen sense of women's deepest insecurities, Bridget Jones's Diary is a must-read. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Joanne Wilkinson
From AudioFile
The novel started life as a series of newspaper columns and is soon to debut as a motion picture. It gives a comic glimpse into a year's worth of diary entries by the title heroine, a single British working woman in her early 30's. Tracie Bennett makes her a fully dimensional character. Listening to her, even men will say to themselves, "There but for the grace of God go I." Bridget's foibles, anxieties, humiliations, frustrations and heartbreaks, as Bennett presents them, are too real and personal to elicit laughter; we can't laugh at the expense of someone we know so intimately. The amusement we take is gentler than that inspired by the paper Bridget. The careful abridgment is just the right length for such passionate acting. A truly stellar job. Y.R. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner
From Kirkus Reviews
Newspaper columnist Fielding's first effort, a bestseller in Britain, lives up to the hype: This year in the life of a single woman is closely observed and laugh-out-loud funny. Bridget, a thirtysomething with a midlevel publishing job, tempers her self-loathing with a giddy (if sporadic) urge toward self-improvement: Every day she tallies cigarettes smoked, alcohol unitsconsumed, and pounds gained or lost. At Una Alconbury's New Year's Day Curry Buffet, her parents and their friends hover as she's introduced to an eligible man, Mark Darcy. Mark is wearing a diamond-patterned sweater that rules him out as a potential lust object, but Bridget's reflexive rudeness causes her to ruminate on her own undesirability and thus to binge on chocolate Christmas-tree decorations. But in the subsequent days, she cheers herself up with fantasies of Daniel, her boss's boss, a handsome rogue with an enticingly dissolute air. After a breathless exchange of e-mail messages about the length of her skirt, Daniel asks for her phone number, causing Bridget to crown herself sex goddess. . . until she spends a miserable weekend staring at her silent phone. By chanting ``aloof, unavailable ice-queen'' to herself, she manages to play it cool long enough to engage Daniel's interest, but once he's her boyfriend, he spends Sundays with the shades pulled watching TVand is quickly unfaithful. Meanwhile, after decades of marriage, her mother acquires a bright orange suntan, moves out of the house, and takes up with a purse-carrying smoothie named Julio. And so on. Bridget navigates culinary disasters, mood swings, and scary publishing parties; she cares for her parents, talks endlessly with her cronies, and maybe, just maybe, hooks up with a nice boyfriend. Fielding's diarist raises prickly insecurities to an art form, turns bad men into good anecdotes, and shows that it is possible to have both a keen eye for irony and a generous heart.
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Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp, officials drag their heels. The only way to get food fast is to bring the celebrities first, so Rosie returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal. Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding's debut novel is both comic and thought-provoking.
Cause Celeb crackles with insights into the nature of fame, passion, and altruism in our time, all the while following an unlikely-but hugely likeable-heroine.

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.

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Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, everyone's favorite Singleton Bridget Jones begins her search for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice. She experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It (can self-help books really help self?), protective custody, and a lightly chilled Chardonnay.

编辑推荐：最初于《独立报》和《每日电讯报》专栏连载，获得读者的极大好评，风靡英伦，出版后长期居于英国各大排行榜第一名。 1998年获英国图书大奖年度图书奖。 “尼尔森白金图书奖”，被誉为“现代版的《傲慢与偏见》”。 2001年改编成同名电影，由蕾妮?齐维格、休·格兰特和科林·菲尔斯主演，风靡全球，曾获第74届奥斯卡金像奖最佳女主角(提名)。 作者简介： 海伦·菲尔丁（Helen Fielding，1958年2月19日－） 英国当今最受欢迎的都市女作家。 出生于英国约克郡，毕业于牛津大学牛津大学圣安妮学院，主修英语文学，后来在伦敦生活。她在BBC工作多年，曾制作过一些非洲题材的记录片。 2003年被《观察家报》选为50个最有趣的英国喜剧作家之一。 代表作《BJ单身日记》三部曲。现在给多家英国报纸撰稿。 内容简介：? 本书是风靡全球的电影《BJ单身日记》原著小说，作者此后又写出《BJ单身日记2》及《BJ单身日记3》。年过三十的伦敦“剩女”布丽吉特·琼斯貌似要把余生奉献给美食与节食、酒精单位与卡路里摄入上。在同龄已婚人士与父辈的多重夹击之下，经常与一众不婚好友作出一些口是心非，甚至偏激可笑的女权主义单身宣言。她的这一整年日记，在忠实记录花心上司、二货母亲，职场糗事的同时，恨嫁之心昭然若揭。直至真命天子马克·达西的出现，她还半信半疑半推半就地与之上演了一段傲慢与偏见式的大戏。 这部被誉为“现代版《傲慢与偏见》”的小说出版后长期居于畅销书排行榜，同名影片轰动全球，成为近年来最为都市影迷津津乐道之作，而BJ（布丽吉特·琼斯姓名缩写）也成为剩女们最为时髦的词语。? 媒体评论： “《BJ的单身日记》使得布莉琪·琼斯成为无数个女人——特别是私房衣橱里塞满了各种性感小秘密的女人——超级的贴心闺中密友。 ——《纽约时报》 “很难想象，上哪去能挖掘到比《BJ的单身日记》更绝妙、更绕富趣味的小说创作！” ——《出版家周刊》 “近年来的英语创作小说，很难找到比这本书更有趣味、更窝心、观察更为细腻、能为读者带来更多感动与喜悦的小说！” ——《每日电讯报》 精彩选读： 57.1kg，酒0单位（不可思议），香烟0，卡路里2250。 我看到一篇文章说凯瑟琳·泰南经常保持“内在的安定”，在写作的时候，她会穿得干干净净的，坐在房间正中央的一张小桌子边，啜饮着冰凉冰凉的白酒。凯瑟琳·泰南才不会被柏佩嘉一施加压力，就吓得衣装完整地躲在羽绒被里、一根接一根地抽着烟、咕噜咕噜大口喝完一大杯酒、化着冷冷的鸟人妆，做一些歇斯底里的动作。凯瑟琳·泰南更不会允许丹尼尔·克利弗想跟她睡觉的时候就跟她在一起，却不愿意做她的男朋友。她也不会没有知觉地喝着酒，吐得到处都是。希望可以像凯瑟琳·泰南一样（虽然不像她，但明显，我已经太累了）。 最近，只要事情一失控，我就会重复念着“内在的安定”，一边想象我自己身穿白色亚麻布料的衣服，坐在桌上摆着鲜花的椅子上。我现在不会每天都抽烟了。每天都对丹尼尔摆出一副高贵傲慢的样子，已经三个星期没有跟他发E-mail、打情骂俏，或一起睡觉了。上个星期勉强跟汤姆喝了三单位的酒，因为他抱怨晚上跟这个崭新而毫无恶习的我一起，就像跟峨螺类、海扇贝或软乎乎的海洋生物一块儿出去吃晚饭。 我的身体是一个圣殿。我在想是不是到了该上床睡觉的时候。噢，不，才八点半而已。内在的安定。喔喔，电话……

The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.