Bridget Jones's Diary

«Bridget Jones's Diary» — a cult novel by Helen Fielding. Its film adaptation became a classic of cinema, starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth.

It's impossible not to love Bridget Jones. Her story is an astonishingly ironic and candid testimony to the complicated yet vibrant life of thirty-something solo dwellers in a metropolis. The pursuit of self-improvement, the choice between single life fun and commitments, the pressure from parents asking «When are you getting married?», setbacks at work — these are problems familiar to many. Bridget wittily describes her everyday life in her diary, counting glasses of wine, calories, and cigarettes on its pages. And in between, she falls in love and astonishingly finds herself in comical situations.

The novel won the «Best Book of the Year» award in the UK, and also ranked 75th in the BBC's list of the 200 best books.