Classics with a Message

Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones’s Diary.  Pan Macmillan, 2001.

Bridget Jones begins the year with resolutions to reduce alcohol and tobacco and to “have a functional relationship with a responsible adult”. i.e. finding a man. She is in her thirties and her mother and her friends want to know why she isn’t married. Bridget has to find a suitable man, but first finds herself with the wrong type in her haste.
      
Bridget models herself on the attractive women she sees in the media,  societies glittering surface, yet comments darkly on its superficiality. This is what makes the novel so amusing. However she is desperate to find the answer to her predicament.This engaging novel is written by Helen Fielding is in the genre of social realism and gives chance for reflection about things we take for granted.