Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones is everyone's favourite spinster. In her Diary she documents her struggles through the social minefield of her 30s and tries to weigh up the eternal question: Daniel Cleaver or Mark Darcy? She is supported through the whole process by four indispensable friends, Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay.

Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'.