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January
Bridget works in a publishing house. She is in love with her boss Daniel Cleaver. He starts to come on to her. They start e-mailing. Daniel asks her out but then cancels at the last minute. Two weeks later they have a romantic dinner and then they go to his flat and while he is undressing her he says that he doesn’t want to get involved and so Bridget leaves. -
February
Daniel and Bridget are still e-mailing. He is still being very flirtatious. On Valentine’s Day Bridget gets a Valentines Day card from him but at first she thinks it is for someone else. Bridget's parents are having marital problems. Bridget also has to go to a dinner party with “smug marrieds” who always ask her how her love life is. -
March
Bridget’s mum left Bridget’s dad and is having a relationship with a certain Julio. Bridget is still trying to ignore Daniel. He invites her to a weekend in Prague but that doesn’t happen. She tries to have a dinner party for her birthday but everything goes wrong and her friends take her out for dinner instead. -
April
Bridget's mum becomes a television personality. Bridget tries to work on inner poise. Bridget has to introduce an author at an book-introduction party and she totally fails. Daniel gets her into bed -
May
Bridget thinks she is pregnant. On the one hand she likes it but on the other hand she is in a panic. It turns out she misread the pregnancy test.
Bridget's mother gets her to act in her Suddenly Single show as if she is “suddenly single”. This turns into a disaster because Daniel appears from the bedroom. -
June
Daniel becomes her Boyfriend. Bridget goes on a “mini-break” with Daniel -
July
Daniel and Bridget were going to go to her uncle' and aunt's party. Bridget is excited to be able to show up with a boyfriend instead of coming alone. On the day of the party Daniel cancels because he has so much work to do. Bridget goes alone.
To make things worse the theme of the party was changed without Bridget knowing so she showed up in a bunny suit while everyone else was dressed in normal party clothes. That afternoon Bridget finds out that Daniel was cheating on her. -
August
When Daniel and Bridget talk a few weeks later and Bridget finally admits she is still in love with him, he tells her that he and that American girl are getting married! Bridget goes to Edinburgh for a long work–outing. In this month Bridget drinks a lot. -
September
Bridget gets a job working for a TV channel. At first she only works behind the scenes but this month she gets to be on TV too. She totally makes a fool of herself. -
October
October: On the first of October Bridget goes to a party thrown by Mark Darcy. Mark Darcy asks her out on a date. Bridget isn’t interested in him but she says yes anyway. He was supposed to come at eight but he doesn’t show up; he stood her up! It turns out Mark Darcy had come to Bridget’s house to pick her up for the date but Bridget was drying her hair with the hairdryer and didn’t hear the doorbell. -
November
Bridget invites her friends (including Mark Darcy) to a dinner party at her house. The cooking of the food went wrong, however. Bridget's mother leaves to Portugal with Julio because the police want them for taking money from family. Bridget's mother gets out of it and Julio stays in Portugal for time being. -
December
In the first part of this month Bridget is very down because it seems as if no one likes her and she has no friends. She goes to a Christmas party at her mums’ house and Bridget’s mum and dad get back together. Julio gets found and is picked up by the police. Mark Darcy takes Bridget out for dinner and he tells her how he feels about her. Bridget is very happy with her new boyfriend.