Sophie Kinsella
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born
December 12, 1969
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female
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London, England, The United Kingdom
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Literature & Fiction, Humor
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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 cen...more
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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
"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 (The Undomestic Goddess)
— Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)
"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)
— 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)
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)
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| The Book Challenge: Michelle Kay's Reads 2009 | 4 | 44 | Apr 17, 2009 12:42AM | |
| Meg Cabot & F...: If you liked Queen of Babble... | 3 | 8 | May 13, 2009 12:46PM | |
| College Students! : The Chick-Lit thread | 16 | 117 | May 19, 2009 08:27PM | |
| Novel Ladies: Christie's Reading Log | 7 | 13 | Jun 01, 2009 12:15PM | |
| Chicks On Lit: Author Talk | 84 | 93 | Jun 08, 2009 11:50AM |
