Bridget Jones's Diary

By: Helen Fielding

Narrated by: Tracie Bennett

Newly released movie tie-in edition!

Meet Bridget Jones -- a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers is she could:

a) lose 7 pounds
b) stop smoking
c) develop Inner Poise

Here is the laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of a hilarious year in the life of the devastatingly self-aware Bridget Jones; a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult.

Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel -- or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, she manages to pick herself up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time and totally alcohol, calorie, and perverted-misogynist free.

Bridget Jones's Diary will make you like yourself for precisely those things you're most ashamed of. And through it all, Bridget Jones will have you helpless with laughter, and shouting,
"Bridget Jones is me!"©1997 by Helen Fielding; (P)1998 by Random House, Inc., Random House AudioBooks, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Screamingly funny!”
—USA Today

“Bridget Jones is channeling something so universal and (horrifyingly) familiar that readers will giggle and sigh with collective delight.”
—Elle

“Fielding . . . has rummaged all too knowingly through the bedrooms, closets, hearts, and minds of women everywhere.”
—Glamour

“Hilarious and poignant.”
—The Washington Post

“Bridget Jones’s diary has made her the best friend of hundreds of thousands of women.”
—The New York Times

“A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh.”
—Salman Rushdie

Brilliant

I don't usually buy abridgments but this was wonderful...even better than the full book if you ask me. The narrator's voice is perfect - could not read Bridget better - and so comical in all the right places. I can listen again and again.
LOVE IT!!!!

Fun listen!

Narrator performed wonderfully both men and women characters and the story is a lot of fun to listen to!

So fun

I love a book in the form of a diary. Now I can watch the move.

For Singletons Everywhere

I listened to this book after seeing the movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed. And I have to admit that I actually liked the movie better that the book! Still, I can't get enough of Bridget Jones, so this was very entertaining and worth the listen.

Funny, romantic, excellent

(I am sure there are some lost Audible reviews, because I cannot believe that this title has gone without!) This is an abridged book, and usually I find that offensive (too abrupt, too few details), but this is a GREAT short read. I didn't feel that there was anything missing. I haven't read the full text (sorry, Ms Fielding), but I found this Audible version even more enjoyable than the movie (although it didn't hurt to have a mental note of Colin Firth while listening ;-) Don't avoid this title if you have seen the movie and are worried it will exactly the same -- it isn't. There are many different scenes, many of them laugh-aloud. It is a very fun book. Also kudos to the narrator who brought the many characters to life. This is one of the few Audible titles I will listen to more than once.