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Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books Author: Helen Fielding Format: Hardcover Publisher: Penguin Group USA ISBN-10: 0670894508 ISBN-13: 9780670894505 Subject: Action, Adventure Publication Year: 2001 Topic: -- Special Attributes: -- Language: English

Condition: New

Detailed item info Synopsis After breaking with her erratic newscaster boyfriend, disaffected British publicist Rosie Richardson finds a new, fulfilling career running a relief camp in Africa. When famine hits her community, she returns to London to organize a celebrity benefit, with the help of TV and film high-rollers she met through the ex-boyfriend. High-jinx ensue.

Size

Length: 342 pages

Height: 9.0 in.

Width: 6.0 in.

Thickness: 1.2 in.

Weight: 18.4 oz.

Publisher's Note

Disillusioned with London's glittering celebrity world following her breakup with her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twentysomething Rosie Richardson escapes to a refugee camp in the African desert, where she is forced to draw on her media savvy to aid the starving victims of a devastating famine. By the author of Bridget Jones's Diary.

Industry reviews

"This semi-earnest 1994 novel precedes the author's bestsellers...and both her rough promise and growing pains are much in evidence." New York Times - Janet Maslin (01/29/2001)

"While Ms. Fielding gives Rosie a little more backbone and a few more IQ points than she gave Bridget, the biting wit readers love so much in the 'Bridget Jones' books is missing. CAUSE CELEB offers a bit of insight into the world of A-list London and the pseudo-politics of some of its stars." Wall Street Journal - Kate Flatley (02/02/2001)

"Fielding and famine? It seems a precarious combination, but the surprise of this shrewd novel is that the author keeps vaulting over the high bars she sets for herself. By the book's end, she has managed to pull off both an edgy political satire and a satisfying romantic comedy..." San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Sarah Coleman (02/04/2001)

"An impressive novel, CAUSE CELEB lacks the hooting-out-loud humor of BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY. But it is still a terrific, witty story." USA Today - Deirdre Donahue (02/08/2001)