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    Audiobook11 hours

    Cause Celeb

    Written by Helen Fielding

    Narrated by Bernadette Quigley

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    About this audiobook

    Cause Celeb-the critically acclaimed debut novel from a writer with a boundless grasp of the existential and the uproarious-has just landed in America. 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 twenty-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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 25, 2005
    ISBN9781596006904
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    Cause Celeb
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    Helen Fielding

    Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She is the author of Cause Celeb, Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. She co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting book where famine relief work is juxtapositioned with true chick lit episodes.
    • 4/5
      This is gutsily written, and highly informative when it comes to the ins and outs of running a refugee camp, and the difficulty of raising awareness and money when people aren’t seen to be “starving enough”. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that tackles the subject with quite such zeal. It was an eye-opener. And yet juxtaposed with the storyline back in London, where the narrator gets involved in an emotionally abusive relationship with a media personality and rubs noses with all sorts of flamboyant (and almost universally dislikeable) slebs, sits uncomfortably alongside it. Both were well written, but despite the fact that having the celebs come over and support an emergency appeal was a key part of the novel, the two strands of the story felt horribly jarring. Maybe it’s significant that there is a nostalgic feel to the London sections with the yuppie culture (at its height when the novel came out), and that only recently have questions started to be seriously posed about “white saviours” and the focus on celebrities by organisations like Comic Relief. Either way, an informative read but one that never felt quite like a rounded whole.
    • 3/5
      My personal opinion is that Fielding's best work was Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, but this novel did offer an interesting perspective on the humanitarian crisis in Africa during the 1980's. If you've never read any of her other books, I'd suggest the Bridget books, but if you have and you like her style...go for it.
    • 3/5
      Rosie Richardson works at a refugee camp in Nambula, Africa, where she's been for the last four years after breaking off a toxic relationship with the famous television man Oliver Merchant in London. It took me a while to get into this book, as it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a serious look at starvation in the Third World, or Bridget Jones Goes to Africa (yes, I know it was written before Bridget Jones's Diary, but you get my drift). Some parts were very funny, and others made me feel like Fielding was trying to browbeat me into donating to charity. At first it stirred my compassion, but by the end it felt more like a lecture than a story. Fielding also relied a bit too heavily on dialect for differentiation, turning her characters into charicatures. Still, there was a fair bit of humor and reasonably engrossing drama; this was certainly not a bad first novel, but I can understand why Bridget Jones is so much more popular.
    • 4/5
      This book was entertaining and thought provoking. Not just your average chick lit. As someone who has visited a third world country intending to "help", it really hit home.
    • 4/5
      This was a good book. It was darker than I expected, with serious subject matter infiltrating the author's usual absurd take on British social situations.
    • 1/5
      Boring, stupid, trying to be clever and coming out obnoxious. Celebrities are spoiled? Who knew?! Avoid this, and stick with Bridget.
    • 4/5
      This is Helen Fielding's first book, written ages before Bridget Jones. She worked in BBC TV and knows whereof she speaks, this book really raises some issues about celebrities and causes. A wry, satirical look at the whole attitude to charity for the 3rd world, and written long before Bono, Angelina Jolie, Madonna et al had jetted off to improve their "caring" quotient and make themselves feel good.
    • 5/5
      Much much better than the Bridget Jones books. This seemed more believable, more human and thought-provoking. Highly recommended.
    • 1/5
      It's so very different from her Bridget Jones' offerings. I found it a tedious read.