Sophie Kinsella





Sophie Kinsella

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in London, England, The United Kingdom
December 12, 1969

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Madeleine Wickham (born 12 December 1969) is a bestselling British author under her pseudonym, Sophie Kinsella. Educated at New College, Oxford, she worked as a financial journalist before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing a popular series of chick-lit novels. The Shopaholic novels series focuses on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her own finances. The books follows her life from when her credit card debt first become overwhelming ("The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic") to the latest book on being married and having a child ("Shopaholic & Baby"). Throughout the entire series, her obsession with shopping and the complications that imparts on her life are central themes.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 952,869 ratings · 41,245 reviews · 25 distinct works · Similar authors
Confessions of a Shopaholic...
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 309,257 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
Can You Keep a Secret?
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 121,554 ratings — published 2005 — 64 editions
The Undomestic Goddess
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 93,423 ratings — published 2005 — 69 editions
Remember Me?
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 86,647 ratings — published 2008 — 63 editions
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan ...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 57,323 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
Twenties Girl
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 56,228 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
Shopaholic & Baby (Shopahol...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 53,688 ratings — published 2007 — 57 editions
Shopaholic Ties the Knot (S...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 52,379 ratings — published 2002 — 56 editions
I've Got Your Number
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 46,499 ratings — published 2011 — 47 editions
Shopaholic and Sister (Shop...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 44,588 ratings — published 2004 — 70 editions
More books by Sophie Kinsella…
Confessions of a Shopaholic Shopaholic Takes Manhattan Shopaholic Ties the Knot Shopaholic and Sister Shopaholic & Baby Mini Shopaholic
Shopaholic (6 books)
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3.5985735005232335 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 544,690 ratings

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July 2009, Sophie Kinsella
"Holidays are all about indulgence, and there's nothing more indulgent than opening one of these books and sinking into the happy, sunlit world of P.G. Wodehouse." ...More

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“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
Sophie Kinsella, Undomestic Goddess, The

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.”
Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

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