No matter how successful the Bridget Jones novels have been, we can hardly blame Helen Fielding for wanting a change of pace. And so, for now at least, she’s left behind her droll sendup of chick-lit and Pride and Prejudice for a droll sendup of James Bond. Her new heroine is a reluctant fashion reporter who stumbles onto an Al Qaeda plot while covering the launch of a new face cream, and winds up working for MI6, who outfit her in perfect Q style with such spy gadgets as a beweaponed push-up bra. Fighting international terrorism and jetsetting among Hollywood, Cairo, and Honduras, Olivia lives in a far more glam world than Bridget, but luckily, Fielding has changed none of her warm and witty style. Those in search of light beach reading with at least half a brain, look no further. (Available June 3)
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