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Article: Bridget Jones? No, it's Bond. Jane Bond
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- International Herald Tribune
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- June 8, 2004
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Hilary de Vries
International Herald Tribune
06-08-2004
Just when it seems there cannot, and should not, be room for one more breezy, boss-bashing, boyfriend-stalking chick-lit novel, ''Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination'' arrives in American bookstores this week. If Joules's name is unfamiliar in the United States, her creator's is not: She is Helen Fielding, the Briton who eight years ago unleashed the publishing equivalent of a tsunami with ''Bridget Jones's Diary.''That slim ode to lovelorn British singletons of the 1990s became the ''Da Vinci Code'' of its day, selling more than 10 million copies in 35 countries. It was made into the hit 2001 film starring Renee Zellweger, ...