The English writer Helen Fielding is known primarily as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a lonely thirty-year-old woman from London, trying to comprehend life and love. The Bridget Jones Diary, published in 1996, was published in 40 countries. In a survey conducted by The Guardian, the novel was named in the top ten books of the 20th century.
about the author
Helen Fielding was born February 19, 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire, England. She attended Wakefield Girls High School and then studied English at St. Ann's College, Oxford University.
At Oxford, Helen was a good and conscientious student. After graduation, she went to work for the BBC and contributed to programs such as Nationwide and Playschool. She worked as a researcher in a news magazine. But she did not dream about it. In 1985, Helen went to the refugee camps in Sudan, where he reports and makes documentaries.
Five years later, Helen Fielding works as a journalist and columnist for Telegraph, Sunday Times, Independent. Four years later, the first book, Reason for Success, was published, which received many positive reviews. And Helen begins to work on the second novel.
Success diary
Working in the Independent, Helen leads his own column, which describes the lifestyle of an unmarried wealthy woman who lives for her pleasure, walks in pubs, meets friends. And Helen Fielding writes a book based on it, which is published in 1996. In the very first days it was swept away from the shelves. Soon, Bridget Jones's Diary becomes a bestseller and holds these positions for six months.
Inspired by success, the writer is working on a sequel to the book. In 1999, the novel "Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason." At the same time, Helen met with K. Curren, the author of the Simpsons, and they began a relationship. Torn between London, where she lived, and Los Angeles, Helen begins to work on scripts for the film adaptation. In 2003, Helen Fielding’s novel “Hot Imagination” was released.
In 2004, the son of Dashel is born in the Helen family, in 2006 - the daughter of Romy. In 2009, Helen and Kevin broke up. Six years later, the writer stated that she was working on the next book about Bridget. In the very first days, the novel "Bridget Jones is crazy about the boy", published in 2013, breaks all sales records. At the end of 2016, the fourth book of this series was released - "The Child Bridget Jones."
Books Helen Fielding
Her first book, Reason for Success, was published in 1994. The novel is based on real events that Helen had to face in Sudan, Ethiopia and Mozambique. Although the novel was released two years earlier than Bridget’s Diary, it went almost unnoticed. But the book is good and at the same time difficult. The author addresses global issues: thousands of refugees, sick and dying, lack of food and medicine. It would seem that against the background of the events described the heroine inappropriately looks with her problems.
When Rosie Richardson became disillusioned with her boyfriend, she volunteered for Africa. Rosie got into a refugee camp, where thousands of new ones should arrive soon. After several unsuccessful attempts to help her wards, she decides to attract celebrities to the fundraising campaign and organizes a trip to the European stars to the camp. As a result, what began as a “charity game” becomes for Rosie the meaning of life. The motives of people who leave everything and leave to help others may be different. But the main thing is what each of them comes to, what it endures for itself, with what remains.
Olivia, the protagonist of the next book (“Fiery Imagination”), works as a journalist and wants to write serious articles. But for some reason no one takes it seriously. And how can you take seriously a girl who carries with her a "Robinson's suitcase", which contains everything that can come in handy on a desert island? Fearless Olivia Joules conducts his own investigation and, of course, constantly gets into all sorts of stories.
Diary of a lonely woman
The author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding, introduces the diary to a lone thirty-year-old Londoner. He writes his life into it: the number of cigarettes smoked and alcohol drunk, attempts to lose weight and get ready for work. She is constantly asked when she will get married. After unsuccessful attempts to meet the one and only, after meeting with friends, after a few liters of “Chardonnay,” Bridget finds happiness in his arms.
Who does not get hung up on their shortcomings or share their lives with friends? Does not cry with them, spreading tears, and does not give a bunch of tips? He promises to start a new life and constantly puts it off for tomorrow? In the continuation of the adventures of the optimist Bridget “On the verge of insanity,” each girl will be able to recognize herself, and men will gain valuable information about the mysteries of the female soul.
The third novel takes place fifteen years after the events ending the second book, in which the heroine fell in love with lawyer Mark Darcy. Her diary has not changed much since then - the number of cigarettes and portions of alcohol, calories and kilograms still occupy an important place in it. In the third novel, “Crazy about the Boy,” the heroine became a widow, masters “Twitter” and falls in love with a twenty-nine-year-old handsome. No wonder, all the same optimist Bridget, who is already fifty-one, pretends to be thirty-five.
Following the script
The fourth novel, “The Bridget Jones Child,” begins with a letter from Bridget to her child, in which she tells under what circumstances he was born. It just so happened that on the christening with friends she met her ex - Mark. The stormy party ended up sleeping with him. While he ponders whether he wants to return to Bridget, her fate brings with Daniel. Soon she finds out that she is expecting a baby. But who is the father? And the expectant mother begins an investigation.
In chronological order, the events described in the fourth book occurred earlier than the action of the third novel. Judging by the fact that the film was released before the publication of the book, Helen Fielding wrote it in the wake of the script. Nevertheless, the author thanks to this novel received the Woodhouse Award, which is awarded for the funniest books. This means that the reader will find in it what he was looking for: sparkling humor and the skill of the narrator, which is what attracts Helen Fielding novels.