Character guide · 4 books · 1996 to 2016 · Set in London

Helen Fielding

Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones started as a newspaper column: the diary of a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, caught between her caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and the stiff barrister Mark Darcy.

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