Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding

Author:Helen Fielding
Language: eng
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Publisher: Penguin Group US

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BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY

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Copyright © Helen Fielding, 1994 All rights reserved

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Fielding, Helen, date.

Cause celeb / Helen Fielding.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-670-89450-8

1. British—Africa, North—Fiction. 2. Africa, North—Fiction. 3. Food relief—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6056.I4588 C38 2001

823'.914—dc21 00-043367

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For my father, Michael Fielding

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With thanks to Gillon Aitken, Dr. John Collee, Richard Coles, Adrienne Connors, Will Day of Comic Relief, Nellie Fielding and family, Paula, Piers and Sam Fletcher, Dr. Osma Galal, Georgia Garrett, Kathrin Grunig of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Roger Hutchings, Mick Imlah, Tina Jenkins, Paul Lariviere of UNHCR, John Lloyd, John Ma-grath of Oxfam, Judith Marshall of the Natural History Museum’s Department of Entomology, Harry Ritchie, Dr. John Seaman of Save the Children Fund, Jane Tewson of Comic Relief, Sarah Wallace, Jane Wellesley for help, advice, expertise and much kindness; and to Comic Relief, Médecin sans Frontières, Oxfam, the Red Cross, the Save the Children Fund and the Sudanese Commission of Refugees.

With appreciation of Peter Gill’s A Year in the Death of Africa (Paladin), John Rowley’s Grasshoppers and Locusts: The Plague of the Sahel (Panos), Ben Jackson’s Poverty and the Planet (Penguin) and Nigel Twose’s Cultivating Hunger (Oxfam).

And with special thanks to Richard Curtis.

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CHAPTER One

It used to seem extraordinary to me that someone like Henry could actually exist, extraordinary that a person could be transported into an environment so alien to his own, and remain so utterly unaffected by his surroundings. It was as if he had been coated with a very strong sealant, the sort of thing they use to paint on oceangoing yachts.

Henry was spreading thick cut luxury marmalade from a Fort-num and Mason’s jar on a piece of Nambulan unleavened bread.

“Got up this morning, didn’t Boris Believe it—family of eight outside my hut wanting to move their tent nearer the river. I said to the chap, ‘I thought this was a bloody refugee camp, not a holiday camp, but you go ahead, mate, by all means.

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