Bridget Jones's Diary »

Helen Fielding is a journalist and a novelist. She lives in Los Angeles.

Tara McPherson is a poster artist who has created numerous works for such acts as Beck, Modest Mouse, and the Melvins. Her art was also featured in the Academy Award-winning film Juno.

Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and like millions of readers the world round you'll find yourself shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"

New York Times Book Review

Good-bye Rules Girls, hello Singletons...Endearingly engaging...v. funny..