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That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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