{"title":"Helen Fielding","description":"Helen Fielding is a novelist and screenwriter best known as the creator of Bridget Jones. She is the author of the multi-million selling novels, Bridget Jones' Diary, Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Bridget Jones's Baby, and co-writer of the screenplays of the Bridget Jones movies. She worked for many years for the BBC and as a journalist for British newspapers including the Independent, Sunday Times, Times, and Daily Telegraph. In a survey conducted by The Guardian newspaper, Bridget Jones's Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century.","products":[{"product_id":"bridget-joness-diary-paperback","title":"Bridget Jones's Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe #1 bestselling book that defined the 20th century--now updated for the 25th Anniversary!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meet Bridget Jones--a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea. lose 7 pounds\u003cbr\u003eb. stop smoking\u003cbr\u003ec. develop Inner Poise \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBridget Jones's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--a year in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week, not just to buy a sandwich, form a relationship with a functional adult, and learn to work the television remote. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. 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Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and--like millions of readers the world round--you'll find yourself shouting, \"Bridget Jones is me!\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103935500511,"sku":"9780140280098","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3KMUTI5ZLQ9780140280098.webp?v=1781099778"},{"product_id":"bridget-joness-baby-the-diaries-paperback","title":"Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back--with a bump  This gloriously funny story tells us what happened between \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMad About the Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, revealing how our heroine came to be a mum. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful time nonetheless dominated by a crucial and terribly awkward question--which of her ex-boyfriends is the father? Mark Darcy: honorable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or the incorrigible Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notorious ladies' man? In this page-turning tale of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget navigates a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103972233439,"sku":"9780525433880","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BTSfo_ynH79780525433880.webp?v=1781099846"},{"product_id":"bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy-a-goodreads-readers-choice-paperback","title":"Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy: A Goodreads Reader's Choice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eBridget Jones's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e comes a hilarious and heartwarming novel. 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As Bridget navigates head lice epidemics, school-picnic humiliations, and cross-generational sex, she learns that life isn't over when you start needing reading glasses--and why one should never, ever text while drunk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStudded with witty observations about the perils and absurdities of our times, \u003ci\u003eMad About the Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is both outrageously comic and genuinely moving. 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