Boekverslag Helen Fielding

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Titels van Helen Fielding

• Bridget Jones's diary (25)

  1997

• Bridget Jones: the edge of reason (2)

  2000

• Cause celeb / Geloof, hoop & liefdadigheid (1)

  1994

• Tom Jones (3)

  1749

Publisher: Picador

Number of pages: 310

Summary:

Bridget Jones is a single woman over thirty. She is desperately looking for a boyfriend, she is always dieting and is trying to stop smoking and drinking.
Her mother and her mother ‘s friends try to join her with Mark Darcy, a rich and known lawyer, but Bridget isn’t really interested. A lot of her married friends inquire after her love life and she doesn’t like that.
Problems about men are discussed with Jude and Sharon, her best friends, or with Tom, a homosexual friend who is always there to listen to her.
Bridget is in love with Daniel, her boss. After a long time of flirting, they start dating, but soon she finds out that he has got an affair with another woman. Actually, Daniel is engaged. It takes her a while to get over him.
On top of her own problems, her parents don’t get on any more since her mother is dating Julio, a Portuguese she has met on vacation. Her mother wants a whole new life and gets a job for television. She also finds a new television-job for Bridget.
But Julio turns out to be a criminal: he asked rich friends of Bridget’s mother to invest in time-share apartments that didn’t exist, so he actually stole their money. The police came after him and he escaped with Bridget’s mother to Portugal. Finally, Bridget’s mother got off well and acted as if nothing happened, but Julio was arrested for fraud.
At the end of the year, Bridget and Mark fall in love.

Protagonists:

Bridget Jones is older than thirty but she still doesn’t have a serious relationship. She is always counting the calories of what she eats, in order to diet, but it doesn’t really work. She smokes too much, especially when she is nervous. She also drinks a lot and owing to this she often has a hangover.
Bridget doesn’t like to go to a party if she will be the only one without a partner. To stop other people feel sorry for her, she sometimes pretends to have a boyfriend.
Jude and Sharon, two feminists, are her best friends, with whom she discusses the subject “men”. Tom, a homosexual, is her other best friend. She can always call him, even in the middle of the night.
Bridget tries to organize a little dinner for her friends twice, but both times she fails. She is a bad cook and the food wasn’t ready when the guests arrived.
At her first job, she didn’t really do a lot and at her new job, she always did something wrong.

Where?: mainly in London

When?: at present (a year is not mentioned)

Subject matter: the life of a single woman over thirty

Own comments:

I really enjoyed reading the book. It is one of the funniest I have ever read. There is also mentioned what Bridget thinks and what she would like to say to people she doesn’t like. Those parts are really hilarious.
Other diaries often become annoying if the main character is complaining about his or her life and there doesn’t really happen anything. But Bridget has a busy life, so although it is a diary, it is never boring.
Some situations are very recognizable.

Vocabulary:
a tart = (here) a prostitute
poise = balance, dignified self-assured manner
a barrister = lawyer representing clients in court
vile = extremely disgusting
to bulge = swell outwards