Sophie Kinsella





Sophie Kinsella

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

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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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Average rating: 3.59 · 479,418 ratings · 27,598 reviews · 29 distinct works
Confessions of a Shopaholic (S...
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 192,227 ratings — published 2000 — 70 editions
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Can You Keep a Secret?
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 49,627 ratings — published 1999 — 48 editions
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The Undomestic Goddess
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 41,720 ratings — published 2005 — 49 editions
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Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Sh...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 35,658 ratings — published 2001 — 47 editions
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Remember Me?
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 38,070 ratings — published 2008 — 50 editions
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Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shop...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 32,307 ratings — published 2002 — 44 editions
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Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic,...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 26,361 ratings — published 2007 — 45 editions
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Shopaholic and Sister (Shopaho...
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 27,301 ratings — published 2004 — 54 editions
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Twenties Girl
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 22,916 ratings — published 2009 — 47 editions
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Mini Shopaholic: A Novel
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 10,869 ratings — published 2007 — 41 editions
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More books by Sophie Kinsella…
Confessions of a Shopaholic Shopaholic Takes Manhattan Shopaholic Ties the Knot Shopaholic and Sister Shopaholic & Baby Mini Shopaholic: A Novel
Shopaholic (6 books)
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3.53201387647961 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 324,578 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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