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October 16, 2003
Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding

Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding: a very enjoyable book from the offer of Bridget Jones’s Diary despite the fact that it takes place in famine-stricken Africa.

Rosie Richardson works in publishing and is quite shocked to find herself girlfriend to one of television’s stars. However, the relationship is terribly flawed and emotionally abusive, helping lead to her decision to move to Nambula, Africa to help run a refugee camp. Four years later, a famine of epic proportions is threatening to destroy all that she has helped build, so she returns to London to enlist the help of the celebrities she used to know in raising funds and food for the camp.

The first part of the book is done in flashbacks of Rosie’s life before Africa while continuing to tell what is currently happening with her. I enjoyed both timelines and was almost disappointed when the book caught up with “real time” and became linear.

I found Rosie to be a wonderful character - strong without realizing it and willing to help others despite the risk to herself. While I suppose you could predict where the entire book was going, I nevertheless liked it quite a lot. Fans of Fielding and other chick lit authors should be quite pleased with this one.



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Comments

It would be wonderful if Helen Fielding could write more Bridget Jones books. I Love that character, it's so easy to similarir with her.
I also have those movies about Bridget and I've seen them thousands of time.
I live in Finland, there is a very cold winter but Fieldings' books make me warm.
Greetings from southern Finland.

Posted by: pipsa on March 12, 2005 11:37 AM

I wish that Helen Fielding would write a 3rd book in the Bridget Jones books. I can relate to this character and enjoy imenseley the books and movies based on this character.

Posted by: Leanne on March 28, 2005 05:50 AM




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