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Cause Celeb

Written by: Helen Fielding
Narrated by: Bernadette Quigley
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Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding has created an alternately comic and moving satire that straddles the glitter of media London and the horrors of an African refugee crisis.

Rosie Richardson, a 20-something literary puffette, is in a totally non-functional relationship with an unevolved but irresistible adult male - a hotshot TV presenter who plunges her into the glitzy, bitchy, inane lifestyle of London's It people. Disillusioned with the celebrity world, Rosie escapes to run a refugee camp in the African jungle.

When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx heads for the camp, governments and agencies drag their heels. Bringing her former media savvy to the fore, realizing the only way to get food out fast is to bring celebrities first, Rosie turns to the life and man she fled to organize a star-studded emergency appeal from famine-racked Africa.

Seamlessly bridging cataclysm and farce through the insights of a modern-day everywoman, Cause Celeb crackles with insight into fame, passion, and altruism in our time.

©2002 Helen Fielding (P)2005 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Comedy Fiction Africa Witty Celebrity Refugee England
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In spite of the dreadful narration (Bernadette Quigley's accents are DREADFUL; her Canadian character sounds like he's from the southern US; her German character sounds like a parody or a pantomime German and her British characters - just badly done), I really enjoyed this book and if you're a fan of the Bridget Jones books, you can really sense, when reading or listening to this, how Bridget sort of evolved from the character of Rosie Richardson and how the "diary" format developed for Helen Fielding. With a better narrator, I think this book would be a massive success.

The beginnings of Bridget Jones....

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