Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding [U.K. FIRST EDITION] 1996 • Picador

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding U.K. FIRST EDITION [1996] PICADOR Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Clean, tight and beautiful copy!  Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Reads beautifully.  "129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)?"Bridget Jone's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--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, form a functional relationship with a reasonable adult, and not fall for any of the