Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

My books have all generated controversy.

I am brave, though I am alone.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.