Decent enough book — pretty funny at times, a bit too much at times, with an important message.

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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.

It's so boring, I can't bring myself to finish.

The book was hard to get into the storyline at first and filled with lots of details where I found myself skimming a bit. Towards the end it definitely got more intriguing. Overall I liked the moral of the story and the passion Rosie has for third world countries.

Loved it. Totally not bridget jones which i utterly adore but still wonderful fielding wit and powers of observation and description. That woman is my writer idol.

Good book . Some lovely descriptions I could identify with . In parts very real. Written in the 1980’s so not PC

Härlig blandning av allvar, komiska karaktärer och livets små och stora bekymmer

this is a novel about a woman called rosie richardson.
she lives in londong,england.
she is in her twenties.
she has a boy friend called oliver marchant.
she is living a great life.
she then hears about the people in africa who are suffering from hunger and starvation and she does not know what to do.
she wants to help them but does not know how to do so.
she then goes to ethiopia , which is a country in africa and tries to help the poor people over there who are sufferings so much with no fault of their own , it is a muslim country.
she is unable to do any thing.
she asks her boy friend for help and then she goes back to london,england.
her boy friend says he needs to three weeks do any thing.
she then involves the media into it.
she brings in celebrities into the project and that is how she is able to help the people dying of hunger and starvation .
the celebrities come in and help people.
this novel was nothing great!.

I’m a big Bridget Jones fan; so to celebrate 30 years of Bridget, I though I’d read Fielding’s preceding novel set in an African refugee camp in the mid 1980.
Using her experiences working with Comic relief, this is very much a novel of its time, although it tries to highlight the ethical issues surrounding aid and fundraising, and the hypocrisy of ‘star’ involvement in Fielding’s own fantastic writing style.
Our Bridget esque heroin Rosie is a elegant medium to poke fun at celebrity, 80s culture of aid work, sexism and real life scenarios; making this both a heartwarming and cleverly relatable story with real serious punch when it needs to. It’s a shame that more readers don’t know about this witty, significant and enjoyable read, which I couldn’t put down. A must for Brigit fans and fans of clever satire everywhere!

Mixed feelings, Helen Fielding is gewoon een topper maar het is wel een heftig boek. Je wordt een beetje heen en weer geslingerd met je gevoelens.

Li 2 capítulos, percebi que não era para mim.