This book is written by Helen Fielding, about the life of Bridget Jones a young financially independent woman, touching thirty, who is constantly on the lookout for a partner, is obsessed about her weight. Every chapter is prefaced with her calorie intake, alcohol intake, cigarattes consumed and boyfriend status. She has an affair with her boss Daniel Cleaver, who turns out to be inconsiderate and immoral. He dumps her and gets married to another woman even before their affair comes to an end. Bridget's parents also have problems of their own, with her mother going away with a younger man & father crying over this. Her mother tries to fix a date for her with Mark Darcy, a divorced rich man who is also their family's long time acquaintance but he does not seem to fancy Bridget. She turns up in the most hilarious costumes & also has verbal diarrhoea. The dialoges in this book are very strange, peppered with words like 'fuckwittage' used liberally. The author is hugely inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice hence the similarity of the title of the leading man 'Darcy'. All's well that ends well when in the end Bridget finds out that the rich eligible man Mark Darcy loves her.
The book story is not new, though the dialogues and situations are novel and funny. Specially the messages Daniel sends her about her skirt are funny. Some of the writing gets boring and repetitive at times. The end where Mark Darcy comes around and confesses his love for Bridget is rather trite and commonplace. All in all it is a rather interesting story about love and relationships in the present generation. The film too is very interesting with excellent acting by all the leading protagonists
