A dazzling urban satire of modern humanrelations?

An ironic, tragic insight into the demise ofthe nuclear family?

Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked formany years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist,travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, Indiaand Central America. She has written four novels: CauseCeleb (1994), Bridget Jones s Diary (1996) and BridgetJones: The Edge of Reason (2000) and Olivia Joules and theOveractive Imagination (2003). She co-wrote the screen-plays for the movie of Bridget Jones"s Diary and the forth-coming sequel based on The Edge of Reason. She now worksfull-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in Londonand Los Angeles.

New Year"s Resolutions 1

JANUARY An Exceptionally Bad Start 5

FEBRUARY Valentine"s Day Massacre 35

MARCH Severe Birthday-Related Thirties Panic 63

APRIL Inner Poise 87

MAY Mother-to-Be 113

JUNE Hah! Boyfriend 139

JULY Huh 161

AUGUST Disintegration 179

SEPTEMBER Up The Fireman"s Pole 205

OCTOBER Date with Darcy 225

NOVEMBER A Criminal in the Family 251

DECEMBER Oh, Christ 283

"A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time ……reads like Anita Loos of Jane Austen,and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar" ---The Times

"I cannot recommend a book more joyfully... Hilariously funny,miraculously observed, endlessly touching"  ---Daily Telegraph

"Wild comedy …… observed with merciless, flamboyant wit...A gloriously funny book"   ---Sunday Times