Bujna mašta Olivije Jones
A witty romantic-adventure novel by English writer Helen Fielding. After the huge success of Bridget Jones, she introduces a new heroine, Olivia Joules - the surname as a unit of energy, a symbol of her vitality.
Olivia is a confident, smart, independent thirty-year-old Sunday Times journalist who, due to her hyperactive imagination and penchant for dramatic conspiracy theories, is "demoted" from hard news to the glamorous Elan magazine. She lives by her own "rules of life" (e.g. "Never trust a man with too many teeth" or "Always have a plan B"), loves gadgets, travel and adrenaline.
The plot begins at a luxury party in Miami, where Olivia meets the charismatic, wealthy and mysterious Pierre Ferram - an elegant Frenchman who smells of luxury and danger. Her imagination immediately runs wild: he may be a terrorist, a plastically operated Osama bin Laden or an Al-Qaeda mastermind! Instead of settling down, Olivia embarks on an independent investigation, using her journalistic skills, false identities and improvised spy tricks.
The novel is a mix of James Bond, romantic comedy and satire on post-9/11 paranoia. Olivia travels from Florida hotels to eco-lodges in Sudan to underwater caves and deserts, meets dubious characters (from Hollywood producers to Arab millionaires), gets into dangerous situations (helicopters, speedboats, diving), but always with British humor, self-irony and the power of a female perspective. Fielding mocks the media culture, the celebrity world and the fear of terrorism, while Olivia balances between real danger and her "overactive imagination".
The book is fast, fun, full of witty dialogue and unexpected twists - less intimate than Bridget Jones, more action and espionage. Critics called her the "female 007" or "Bond in a skirt", but she did not achieve the same mega-success.
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