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Olivia Joules, an independent journalist turned master spy, finds herself drawn to the seductive and powerful Pierre Ferramo, a man of impeccable taste, extraordinary wealth, and exotic international homes, until she begins to worry that he is an international terrorist intent on the destruction of the Western world but hiding his goal behind a sophisticated smokescreen.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, contemporary and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Helen Fielding
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Goldmann Verlag, Thorndike | Windsor | Paragon, J'ai Lu
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- tur, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781408418604
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Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty something singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success. In a survey conducted by *The Guardian* newspaper, *Bridget Jones's Diary* was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century. **Source**: [Helen Fielding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fielding)
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