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Article: Real Bridget Jones back on the shelf.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2009
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Byline: Richard Kay
WHEN multi-millionaire Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding spoke at the Oxford Union to advise that young women could never 'have it all', she found herself under attack.
Not least because the highly successful novelist and motherof-two had been credited with helping to spawn a generation of thirtysomething singletons.
But perhaps Miss Fielding's views can be better understood after I learn of the writer's own heartbreak -- her eight-year relationship with Simpsons scriptwriter Kevin Curran, the father of her two children, has come to an end.
The couple, who were engaged but never married, met in 2001 when blonde ...