If you just want some light escapism Fielding is a funny and observant writer. I know that, at the time, Bridget became supposedly representative of every single woman over the age of 29 but reading it now (and having been there and done that) I'm not sure how representative Fielding intended her to be. The obsession with self-help books, the constant over-analysing of love interest's behaviour, the weight fixation, the laser-eyed resentment between the singletons and 'smug marrieds': all are exaggerated for comic effect. Plus how many single thirty something women living in London today could afford to buy a flat on their own?