Summary

This book doesn’t have real chapters, it is divided in months. the diary starts in January and goes until December.

January. Bridget works in a publishing house. She is in love with her boss Daniel Cleaver. He starts to come on to her. They start e-mailing. Daniel asks her out but then cancels at the last minute. Two weeks later they have a romantic dinner and then they go to his flat and while he is undressing her he says that he doesn’t want to get involved and so Bridget leaves.

February: Daniel and Bridget are still e-mailing. He is still being very flirtatious. On Valentine’s Day Bridget gets a Valentines Day card from him but at first she thinks it is for someone else. Bridget's parents are having marital problems. Bridget also has to go to a dinner party with “smug marrieds” who always ask her how her love life is.


March: Bridget’s mum left Bridget’s dad and is having a relationship with a certain Julio. Bridget is still trying to ignore Daniel. He invites her to a weekend in Prague but that doesn’t happen. She tries to have a dinner party for her birthday but everything goes wrong and her friends take her out for dinner instead.

April: Bridget's mum becomes a television personality. Bridget tries to work on inner poise. Bridget has to introduce an author at an book-introduction party and she totally fails. Daniel gets her into bed.

May: Bridget thinks she is pregnant. On the one hand she likes it but on the other hand she is in a panic. It turns out she misread the pregnancy test.
Bridget's mother gets her to act in her Suddenly Single show as if she is “suddenly single”. This turns into a disaster because Daniel appears from the bedroom.

June: Bridget goes on a “mini-break” with Daniel.
On a Saturday Daniel and Bridget were going to go to her uncle and aunts “tarts and vicars” party. Bridget is excited to be able to show up with a boyfriend instead of coming alone. On the day of the party Daniel cancels because he has so much work to do. Bridget goes alone.
To make thing worse the theme of the party got changed without Bridget knowing so she showed up in a bunny suit while everyone else was dressed in normal party clothes. that afternoon Bridget finds out that Daniel was cheating on her.

August: When Daniel and Bridget talk a few weeks later Bridget finally admits she is still in love with him, he tells her that he and that American girl are getting married!
Bridget goes to Edinburgh for a long work–outing.
In this month Bridget drinks a lot.

September: Bridget gets a job working for the TV. At first she only works behind the scenes but this month she gets to be on TV too. She totally makes a fool of herself. She almost gets into bed with a young guy but she leaves when he says: “hey you’re all squishy”.

October: On the first of October Bridget goes to a party thrown by Mark Darcy. Mark Darcy asks her out on a date. Bridget isn’t interested in him (although her mum and aunt Una wouldn’t mind to see them together (he is a very rich lawyer…) but she says yes anyway. He was supposed to come at eight but he doesn’t show up: he stood her up! Later that week Bridget is allowed to be on TV again. This time she has to interview the prime suspect in a court case. She waits in the cold until the prime suspect comes and of course Bridget just misses her. Luckily she sees Mark Darcy and he turns out to be the prime suspects lawyer! Nobody got to interview her except for Bridget Jones. It turns out Mark Darcy had come to Bridget’s house to pick her up for the date but Bridget was drying her hair with the hairdryer and didn’t hear the doorbell.


November: Bridget’s gay friend Tom disappears. Everyone is very afraid something happened to him. He turns out to have been at home the whole time but not talking to anyone and not letting anyone know where he was because he had a nose job done and it looks awful. Bridget invites her friends (including Mark Darcy) to a dinner party at her house. She totally fails in preparing the dinner.
Bridget's mother leaves to Portugal with Julio because they are wanted by the police for taking money from the family. Bridget's mother gets out of it and Julio stays in Portugal for time being.

December: In the first part of this month Bridget is very down because it seems as if no one likes her and she has no friends. She goes to a Christmas party at her mums house and Bridget’s mum and dad get back together. Julio gets found and picked up by police. Mark Darcy takes Bridget out for dinner and he tells her how he feels about her. Bridget is very happy with her new boyfriend.

Word file

assertive
disdainfully
buoyant
guffawed
inner poise
specific
divine
exquisitely
fawning
remonstrated
huffily
forthcoming
haemorrhage
to eradicate
presumably
zeker, positief, bepaald
minachtend
opgewekt
lachte bulderend
innerlijke zelfverzekerdheid
precies
goddelijk
uitstekend
kwispelstaartend
protesteerde
op chagerijnige manier
verschijning
leegbloeden
ontwortelen
waarschijnlijk

My opinion

Bridget Jones’s Diary is a very funny book because Bridget Jones gets herself in very awkward situations. For example when she doesn’t hear the doorbell when she is blow-drying her hair and then thought Mark Darcy stood her up. Helen Fielding also wrote the book in a very funny way. For example: every day she first says how much she weighs, how many alcohol units she had that day, how many cigarettes she had that day, how many calories she ate and (sometimes) how many positive thoughts she has had.

Monday 17 April 8st 13, alcohol units 6 (drowning sorrows),

cigarettes 19 (fumigating sorrows), calories 3983 (suffocating
sorrows with fat-duvet) positive thoughts 1 (very good)

[I] Realize with sinking humiliation that [the] reason [I] have been
feeling smug about Peter all these years was that I finished
with him and now he is finishing with me by marrying Mrs Giant Valkyrie bottom. (p.191) Bridget often sees thing how they really are and then writes about it in a very funny way.