- Kinsella was battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
- Two books in the series were adapted into the film Confessions of a Shopping Maniac.
- During her career, she sold more than 45 million books translated into dozens of languages.
At the age of 55, Sophie Kinsella, the author of the very successful series about a girl crazy about shopping, died on Monday. Kinsella, who also published under her real name Madeleine Wickham, announced in April 2024 that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, at the end of 2022, AP reported, TASR writes.
Her family announced her death on the writer’s Instagram account. “She died peacefully and her last days were filled with what she loved most: family, music, warmth, Christmas and joy. We cannot imagine what kind of life awaits us without her glow and love of life.” the family said in a post. Sophie Kinsella’s reason for disclosing the illness at a distance was that she wanted her children to be able to receive the news and process it privately and adjust to the “new reality.”
Kinsella started publishing in 2000 – with the book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic about a journalist who writes about money, but she absolutely does not know how to manage it herself. Later, she published ten novels from the series about a shopping maniac and several other books, e.g. Can you keep a secret? or the Goddess in the household. Her works have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and have been translated into dozens of languages.
The first two books in the shopaholic series were adapted into the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic starring Isla Fisher.
