She reassured us that we weren’t alone in feeling 'like an idiot most of the time' and wanting to watch TV in our nighties instead of giving slick speeches at book launches. But what if the ‘all’ we wanted included someone to rescue us from solo trips to turkey curry buffets, take us on mini-breaks and to like us very much, just as we are? Bridget made that okay too.

A co-production of the United Kingdom, United States and France, it is based on Fielding's 1996 novel of the same name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. However, anyone not climbing the career ladder with a baby strapped to their back was made to feel inadequate. Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire and written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding. She is striving for something different from life as it is, without quite knowing what will make her happy: to be. In a ninety’s world, women were told they could and perhaps more accurately should have it all. Bridget is 32, obsessed with her weight and desperate not to become a spinster. She acknowledges that some feminists got angry about this portrayal but points out that she ‘didn’t write the novel as a sociological treatise’ and that 't was reflecting a reality, not creating it.' 'It became widely read', she continues, 'because there was recognition.' But there was recognition of more than just the sexism that Bridget had to endure. HELEN FIELDING Bridget Joness Diary a novel PICADOR First published 1996 by Picador This edition published 1997 by Picador an imprint of MacMillan. In the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the novel, Helen Fielding says that when she went to see a screening of Bridget Jones’s Diary with her children a few years ago, she 'was shocked by the casual sexism in every scene, which an unenlightened Bridget just put up with'. A huge success in England, this marvelously funny debut novel had its genesis in a column Fielding writes for.

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding