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Article: Bridget Jones grows up.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 24, 2004
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Byline: Jeff Guinn
The world has changed since Helen Fielding introduced Bridget Jones. That's why the fortysomething novelist features a tougher protagonist in her new novel, "Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination." Olivia, a globe-trotting, terrorist-hunting free-lance journalist, is in many ways the anti-Bridget.
"Olivia has decided to not worry about her figure and weight, to not go through life with the main goal of finding a man," Fielding says in an interview. "This is deliberate on my part. The world has definitely changed from the time when I wrote "Bridget." It does not seem appropriate to write two pages on someone's fear of putting on ...